Glamorgan's Lost Railways

[Danemouth]

A new book by Peter Dale featuring as the title says the Glamorgan Railways that no longer exist. Photos are 1900 onwards and each branch is detailed.

 

I particularly liked the shots of the Porthcawl Branch which is a significant part of my inspiration for Danemouth Esplanade. Well worth £16.

 

Regards,

 

Dave

[John_Miles]

Warning to potential readers of this: it contains some mistakes. On the first line of the introduction, it says something like Glamorgan is now part of Gwent (just in case you don't know, Gwent was carved out of Monmouthshire). Later is says that Barry Docks were named after the Civil Engineer who designed them. Wrong again.The photograph which is described as Roath looks more like Skewen to me. There are more but a complete list would be tedious. What the book does contains is a lot of good views, many pre-grouping and some of which I haven't seen before so enjoy the book for the photographs and be careful about what it says in the text.

[Prometheus]

Agreed. I have just bought and read this book: it is full of splendid howlers and dreadful proof-reading, but the photos [most of which I have not seen before] are excellent.

 

Tony

[tomparryharry]

Warning to potential readers of this: it contains some mistakes. On the first line of the introduction, it says something like Glamorgan is now part of Gwent (just in case you don't know, Gwent was carved out of Monmouthshire). Later is says that Barry Docks were named after the Civil Engineer who designed them. Wrong again.The photograph which is described as Roath looks more like Skewen to me. There are more but a complete list would be tedious. What the book does contains is a lot of good views, many pre-grouping and some of which I haven't seen before so enjoy the book for the photographs and be careful about what it says in the text.

 

It's ok, you've got the wrong Barry, that's all. Barry used to be a railway ticket collector from Porth. Miners using Mabons Day (look it up) would take the train down to Cardiff. "let's use Barrys'railway" came the phrase, and it stuck.

 

 

It's the same about the Cardiff Railway. The architects on Cardiff Docks called in the 3rd marquis for his opinion. "It's a beaut" came the reply.

 

Remember, you heard it here first. Truth is indeed stranger than fiction.

[Ian Hargrave]

It's ok, you've got the wrong Barry, that's all. Barry used to be a railway ticket collector from Porth. Miners using Mabons Day (look it up) would take the train down to Cardiff. "let's use Barrys'railway" came the phrase, and it stuck.It's the same about the Cardiff Railway. The architects on Cardiff Docks called in the 3rd marquis for his opinion. "It's a beaut" came the reply.Remember, you heard it here first. Truth is indeed stranger than fiction.

Now that has stirred the the historical pot. William Abraham..The legendary Mabon.Contemporary of David Lloyd George (they later fell out) MP for the Rhondda at the turn of the 20th century..known as the miner's champion and incidentally employer of my wife's late grandmother in the kitchen of his London home.She lies about her age (14) to get a job there.Reckon she handed down recipes through the generations and I'm still the beneficiary of what was learned there.

 

Find a copy of Cyril Batstone's "Old Rhondda in Pictures" .In it there is a photo of a TVR train conveying Mabon to Treorchy station.