Aber Valley Last Coal Train
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Silent film of the last coal train to work the Senghenydd branch in South Wales. Taken by Thomas James, who was a haulage driver in the South Pit at the Windsor Colliery, seen in the film. Posted here with the kind permission of Peter James and Frances Picken.
At the 10:44 mark. Me and my cousin used to sit in that little bridge and wait for the train to come past. Driver's would always wave and blast the horn. After it had passed we used to go along the line to the pit and play around. I was very young under 10 years old. Brought back some great memories, thank you ever so much for making my day...
Fantastic & very rare footage. 👍👍
it's because of this, that I own a Bachmann 00 gauge model of the British Rail Class 37, no.37251 to be exact, a once member of the Cardiff Canton allocation of 37s based there
I have the Bachmann 37,various brake vans, lots of mineral wagons, to recreate my time as a guard working out of Radyr, 1974.
A rare and wonderful look at workings up the Senghenydd Branch...Very much of the day.
Superb watching the guard casually coupling his van to the moving wagons with such ease….. health and safety would have a fit nowadays at such behaviour, lol…. Excellent bit of footage and obviously 1976, with the dried grass everywhere, also the year headcode reporting numbers were discontinued as can be seen by the 0O00 on the locomotive panel….. again great stuff, thanks 🙏👍😎
Three big incidents occurred on this line in the 70's..In no particular order there were two runaway truckloads of coal that came running down track and ended up in the escape sidings behind the old ilan road..There were mams dads and children collecting coal from the trucks in buckets literally minutes after they had crashed.. The next incident was when a diesel loco runaway from the colliery and actually derailed and lay fully on its side for the best part of three days again below ilan road until a rescue services(crane) came and lifted it back over and onto the tracks And to top it off there was the incident with the runaway break van or guards van as it was known again running away and crashing just as the the trucks had into the siding behind old ilan road unfortunately before it was recovered it was set on fire and that was its final resting place.. Of course the wheels and axles were cut up for scrap.. I do wonder if any budding photographers ever got pics of any of these incidents..
Thanks for sharing as being an old ilan road boy myself and living just above the line this brings back so many memories..
Great film archive.
Aber Valley deserves to have its railway back.
Excellent thanks
Superb video, thanks so much for sharing.
Enjoyed seen my friend Bill
Thank you for sharing - lots of nostalgia. Even though I arrived too late to ever see a train pass through the Aber Valley, I do remember the railway, the bridge over Church Street (that was out of bounds to me as a child) and the railway 😊
We used to wave like mad with a hanky out my brother's bedroom window as kids and the driver would toot the horn...magic!
That was a really nice film, I could hear it in my mind, the clang of buffer,s the children in the street, and the throb of the 37.
So sad to this line gone.
coupling up on the move!
Fabulous footage. Should be in a Museum too - a rare treasure.
I sent a copy to the Heritage Centre in Senghenydd.
Really enjoyed the video 👍👍👍
Fascinating footage especially watching the old guards vans coming down the hill I didn’t think they were still used in them days I’m assuming this is 1970’s.
The long hot summer of 1976 as the dry brown grass tells.
Heartbreaking like the Rhondda fach
Heart breaking same here in Barnsley
Excellent footage. I think I can make our from the sign at the start of the video that closure was scheduled for 1976. Was this footage recorded that year?
Mr Father didn't date ghe film,but I think we can assume it was a little time after the pit was closed
The pit gone, the railway gone!
what are they? 24 ton flats?
What football and cricket teams ground are they
senghenydd
Looks like 1976 year I was born not a blade of green grass in sight
Yeh climate change Wales will be hotter and dryer in the future
@@JohnSmith-qv3lllol. When?