Sirhowy Tramroad
Dates
| / /1802 | Sirhowy Tramroad Established by Sir Charles Morgan to run from the Tredegar Iron Works to Nine Mile Point, to run via the Monmouthshire Canal Tramway from there to Newport. Tramroads were built by the partners in the iron works to run to the Trevil Quarries and from Nantybwch to the Union Iron Works at Rhymney. |
| / /1805 | Sirhowy Tramroad Opened. |
| / /1822 | Monmouthshire Canal Tramway Sirhowy Tramroad Horse-drawn passenger service starts between Newport and Tredegar. |
| / /1829 | Sirhowy Tramroad Steam locomotives used. |
| /06/1857 | Sirhowy Tramroad
Taff Vale Extension Tredegar Junction (Pontllanfraith) to Gelligroes Junction opened. |
| 01/06/1857 | Taff Vale Extension Line extended from Crumlin to Tredegar Junction to meet the Sirhowy Tramroad. |
| 25/05/1860 | Sirhowy Tramroad Act passed to convert tramroad into railway, ban private horse-drawn freighters, use locomotives, extend to Nantybwch and rename concern to the Sirhowy Railway Company. |
| / /1863 | Sirhowy Tramroad Conversion to railway complete. |
| / /1865 | Taff Vale Extension, Sirhowy Tramroad Tredegar Junctions completed on conversion of the Sirhowy Tramroad to standard gauge. |
| 19/06/1865 | Sirhowy Tramroad Opened to passengers. |
| 02/11/1868 | Sirhowy Tramroad Sirhowy to Nantybwch opened. |
| / /1870 | Sirhowy Tramroad The owners, ironmasters, consider disposing of the line and focusing on ironmaking. |
| /07/1875 | Sirhowy Tramroad, London and North Western Railway The London and North Western Railway starts to run trains on the Sirhowy Tramroad. |
| 21/08/1875 | Sirhowy Tramroad, London and North Western Railway Date of retrospective working agreement. |
| 13/07/1876 | Sirhowy Tramroad, London and North Western Railway Act merging the Sirhowy Tramroad into the London and North Western Railway. |
| 13/06/1960 | Sirhowy Tramroad Closed to passengers. |
| 30/04/1969 | Sirhowy Tramroad Closed. |
| / /1970 | Halls Tramway Penar Junction to Hall's Road Junction re-opened to allow closure of southern portion of the Sirhowy Tramroad. Markham Colliery traffic diverted over re-opened line rather than via the Tredegar Junction and lower section of the Sirhowy line. |
Portions of line and locations
This line is divided into a number of portions.
Risca to Sirhowy
Sirhowy to Trevil
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Ken Strachan //1910
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Tredegar Lower Curve
Nantybwch to Rhymney
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Ken Strachan 19/08/2017
Ken Strachan //1910
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Ewan Crawford 21/06/2003
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