Pant [BMR]
Just north of the southern terminus and yard at Pant is a sharp curve around the edge of the steep hillside with a tree which one could almost touch putting an arm out through the window. The line then continues along the edge of the Taf Fechan reservoir; Fechan is a place name element which is also found in the name Ecclefechan in southern Scotland. A Welsh railway civil engineer for whom I worked once asked me how the latter name was pronounced so I told him. 'Oh,' he said 'I always liked to think it was pronounced 'ech-le-vechan' as in Welsh names.' He may have had a point as there is a cognate linguistic connection between the P-Celtic languages used in these names ...
Location: Pant [BMR]
Original line: Pant Terminus (Brecon Mountain Railway)
Photographer: Charlie Niven
Contact photographer: Charlie Niven
Date: 08/1992
Image number: 77585
