A Railway Journey Across South Wales during the late 1950s and 1960s

This book moves across South Wales from east to west. It begins at Abergavenny in 1957 and concludes at Fishguard with the last BR steam visit during 1965. Many long-closed railways, branch lines, plus some industrial locations are visited. These include, Brynmawr, Ebbw Vale, the Vale of Neath line, Crumlin viaduct, Walnut Tree viaduct, the Brecon & Merthyr route, Barry pier, Cowbridge, Treherbert, Cymmer Afan, the ex-Neath & Brecon Railway, Swansea Victoria, and Carmarthen. Steam is the predominant motive power, but a highlight is coverage of the Swansea & Mumbles Railway, colour images of this much missed tramway operated by electric traction are not common, yet there are nine, plus six monochrome images. Most of the photographs, a mixture of black & white and colour, have never previously been published. All were taken by the author, his father, and their friends Dennis Bath, Alan Maund, and Ellis James-Robertson; extensive and informative commentaries accompany the photographs.