Part of the West Wales Railways series, this book starts at Clarbeston
Road, covers the oil-rich town of Milford Haven, where oil refineries
were opened mostly in the 1960s in association with the deep-water
port, to accommodate super tankers from the Middle East, though the
development of other products and pipelines in the oil world has seen
the number of oil terminals there currently reduced to one at
Robeston. Neyland was the original West Wales terminus of the GWR,
after plans to develop Fishguard were delayed until 1906, and saw
several through Passenger and Parcels trains to Paddington until 1963,
when through passenger trains between Paddington and West Wales were
terminated at Swansea with a DMU service beyond. The Neyland branch
from Johnston was closed under the Beeching cuts of 1964, involving
the closure of the important Motive Power Depot whose allocation of
County Class engines is well illustrated, though the effect of this
was largely nullified by the arrival of the diesel age.
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ISBN
9781526795892
Publisert
2025
Utgiver
Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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