Pete Bevan

A good thing to do would be to ask Peter Bevan @ bevandesign@gmail.com He is gened-up on these things.

Sorry that to have to amend == it was a good mile and a half walk from Jersey Marine Road to Jersey Marine Beach. Swansea High Street. From sidings east of the main line there was a line to coal tips at the North Dock. This line also connected to the Swansea & Mumbles Railway when coal trains were worked from Clyne Valley. The line was at road level until it passed the from of the Royal Institute of South Wales, and at what was from there on, street level, to the Strand Quay of the North Dock and up to the GWR. Lines around The North, South and East Dock belonged to Swansea Harbour Trust. The latter to the former ran over The New Cut Bridge. It would be an interesting study to fine out if, at its beginning, Swansea Victoria was a LNWR terminus. The branch Gowerton to Llanmorlais, when coal was worked from there, was a LNWR Branch. In circa1934 the black covering on the horse-drawn parcels wagons had white letters LNWR/LMS painted on them.

Danygraig Halt was very short. It suited the Steam Rail-motor than ran to East Dock. It was a good mile and a half walk to Jersey Marine Beach A very dangerous place to be out on whatever the state of the tide.

OOppss Right in the first place

This should have been posted to Correspondence Re Swansea High Street to Pontypool Road.

The Pontypool Road to Swansea High Street would have ran from Neath Riverside > Neath Abbey curving left to the Swansea Avoiding Line off down a bank before Ynysforgan Viaduct > Morrriston Landore Low Level into Swansea High Street. One terminus needs to be added, making five in all. The Vale of Neath Railway terminated at Swansea East Dock, just west of Swansea Eastern Depot. Trains from there ran to Danygraig Halt (High Level) Pritchards Chemical Works Halt. Jersey Marine Road, Neath Abbey, Neath Riverside, Tonna or named Aberdulias Halt, Resoven, Glyn Neath, up the bank to Hirwaun. passenger traffic ran into and out of East Dock circa 1936. The R&SB stopped at Jersey Marine, a lower level than Jersey Marine Road VofNR. There was yet another Level higher and parallel than this. The VofNR did not go right across Cwrt Sart Bridge but straight on. In this vicinity was the junction with The Swansea Avoiding Line to and from all point west or down the bank to Mooriston.

Hi Steve, That's a great offer for help, I am currently in the middle of track building but will start gathering together some research of prototypes and finalise the details. I'm sure I will be back for more!

Wow Steve, and I thought the next step on from installing a Ratio signal would be a straight forward process!! Your posts have been most inspiring and have pushed me to want to investigate signal building more thoroughly. A couple of quick questions: I notice that you use several suppliers for signal components. Would a basic kit from MSE with your added bearings and mods be suitable to start off signal building with or would you recommend more of a mix and match route. How do the signals with their bases get blended into the layout. You mention that they are a semi-permanent installation and are removable but the ones that you have removed from Liverpool Lime Street don't seem to have any ballast/ undergrowth surrounding them. Do you ever get involved with the installation, more specifically, how dummy pulley runs would terminate at the signal? Also do you have a list of basic and prefered tools that you would recomend before comencing work and discovering and internet order needs to be made before any real progress can be made (my usual state of affairs!) Thanks in advance Pete

What is the overall size of the layout? You must be chuffed with all your hard work!! Pete

Yes the angles will make it work very well and the space will give a nice area to show off rolling stock, another one to watch with interest! Good Luck

Just the ticket. We have just put the house on the market which brings my current loft layout to a grinding halt. and along comes a nice little challenge which will keep me relaxed between the crazy moments of buying and selling houses. I'll choose a scene that has captured my imagination of the ex Brecon and Merthyr Junction Railway crossing the Monmouth & Brecon Canal at Talbont on Usk, Brecon. See the Talybont on Usk thread for a contemporary photo.