Port Talbot Railway and Docks Company: plan of the Company system. 1912

This material is held atWest Glamorgan Archive Service

Reference
- GB 216 D/D Z 570/2
Dates of Creation
- 1912
Language of Material
- English
Physical Description
- 1 plan; 68 cm square; scale not given

Archive Record|Table of contents

Records relating to railways in West GlamorganD/D Z 570

Official railway map of South Wales, prepared and published at the Railway Clearing House, London (with pen and ink annotations showing the Swansea District Line and proposed Cwmgors-Pontardawe railway). 1904D/D Z 570/1

Port Talbot Railway and Docks Company: plan of the Company system. 1912D/D Z 570/2

Opinion of Mr C Rous-Marten (accident investigator on behalf of the GWR) on the Loughor railway accident, 3 October 1904. Includes photographs of the aftermath of the accident. The accident involved the derailment of a saddle tank engine being used to pilot an express train up the Cockett Bank. The opinion recorded here is on whether a saddle tank engine is safe at the high speeds required to gain speed on the level section immediately before the incline. 1904D/D Z 570/3

Rule book for the operation of of the Margam Hump Marshalling Yard, British Railways Western Region. Feb 1960D/D Z 570/4