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31st May 1959
A Derby suburban DMU entering Taffs Well station on 31 May 1959 with a Barry Island service. Image by Derek Chaplin. Peter Brabham Collection.
13th June 1959
View from Walnut Tree Viaduct on 13 June 1959 by Derek Chaplin. You are standing on the Barry railway looking down on the Taff Vale, Rhymney and Cardiff railway lines plus the Glamorganshire canal. You can see what a bottleneck the taff Gorge was geographically. A view up the Taff valley much changed today with the A470 Dual carriageway and the new South Wales Metro Depot under construction. Natgarw colliery and coke works in the far background. In 1959 Derek Chaplin accompanied BBC broadcaster Wynford Vaughan Thomas making a radio broadcast catching trains only from Cardiff to North Wales and calling in on both the embryonic Talyllyn and Ffestiniog railways. Subsequently, Derek made up a 35mm slide show called "Trains of Wales 1959" which he showed at railway societies. These 137 mainly Kodachrome slides have been found by his family preserved in a dry wooden storage box and I am privileged to scan them for people to see again. Peter Brabham Collection.
13th May 1965
A Derby suburban triple set at Taffs Well on 13th May 1965. Peter Brabham Collection.
9th April 1979
Set: C318
Murky day at Taffs Well. Bound for Cardiff Central from Merthyr on 9/4/1979, this class 116 DMU (set C318, presumably 50917 + 59369 + 50864) is seen passing the huge Walnut Tree Junction signalbox opened in 1915 and closed 27th January 1997. Stephen Burdett.
9th April 1979
Set: C301
W50084 leads refurbished Cardiff set C301 (presumably with 59373 + 50126) out of Taff Wells station, deep in the Valleys. It is heading for Cardiff then onto Barry Island, 9/4/79. Stephen Burdett.
11th April 1979
Set: C320
A Treherbert bound class 116 DMU (set C320, presumably 50869 + 59035 + 50922) approaches Taffs Well on an inclement 11th April 1979. Stephen Burdett.
6th March 1981
Set: C314
Two Class 116 sets at Taff Wells on May 6, 1981. The closest is C314, presumably 50848 59356 50901. Steve Davies Collection.
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