Brynmawr


Chronology Dates

  /  /1829Baileys Tramroad
Tramroad built from Nantyglo Iron Works near Brynmawr, to Govilon on the Brecknock and Abergavenny Canal.
29/09/1862Merthyr, Tredegar and Abergavenny Railway
Opened from Abergavenny to Brynmawr.
01/03/1864London and North Western Railway, South Wales
Extension from Brynmawr to Nantybwch.
  /  /1871J.&C. Bailey (Joseph Bailey and Crawshay Bailey)
Sell Nantyglo Iron Works to Brynmawr railway to the Nantyglo and Blaina Iron Company.
  /  /1877Merthyr, Tredegar and Abergavenny Railway
Line doubled between Abergavenny and Brynmawr requiring new tunnel bores at Clydach and Gelli Felen.
  /  /1881London and North Western Railway
Rent the Nantyglo to Brynmawr railway from the Nantyglo and Blaina Iron Company.
31/07/1902Brynmawr and Western Valleys Railway
Line taken over jointly by the London and North Western Railway and the Great Western Railway as the Nantyglo and Blaina Iron Company were asking too high a price to buy their private Nantyglo Iron Works to Brynmawr railway.
  /  /1918London and North Western Railway
Lease of the Nantyglo to Brynmawr railway expires.
05/05/1941Talywain Branch
Closed to passengers for Newport, Pontypool and Brynmawr service.
  /  /1953Brynmawr and Blaenavon Railway
Furnace Sidings to Brynmawr closed to through freight.
  /  /1961Brynmawr and Blaenavon Railway
Furnace Sidings to Brynmawr lifted.