Merthyr Vale Colliery

Location type

Mine

Name and dates

Merthyr Vale Colliery

Station code: National Rail


Chronology Dates

  /  /1951Quakers Yard and Merthyr Joint Railway (Great Western Railway and Rhymney Railway)
Branch over the river to Merthyr Vale Colliery closed.
21/10/1966Aberfan disaster
A mudflow of spoil from Merthyr Vale Colliery engulfs Pantglas Junior School and twenty houses killing 147. 116 were children. See image 25907.