Welsh Railways Archive

The WRA is the Circle's Journal, published twice a year in May and November. Published on high quality glossy art paper, it provides a means whereby members can formally publish the results of their researches. 

Back Issues of the Journal are available through our publications distributors Black Dwarf Lightmoor

Contributions to the Welsh Railways Archive from members are always welcomed by the Editor. If you are able to contribute, please contact wraeditor@wrrc.org.uk


Volume 5                Volume 4                Volume 3                Volume 2                     Volume 1



Volume 5 Number 2
WRA4_X
Contents:
  • The Barry Bit - Through carriages in high summer
  • The Vale of Neath and Cefn Mawr Junction Railway
  • Courtybella - a mystery solved?
  • Records of Steam in the Eastern Valley
  • B&M 2-4-0T No.21
  • Sir John Wyndham Beynon jumps the rails at Tredegar
  • The GWR and the Rhymney engines - Part 1 - The Saddle Tank Classes
  • A Race to the Gwaun Cae Gurwen coalfield - a postscript
  • The Memorandum of 1920 - the GWR plans its future
  • The Y9 Wee Puggies - the LNER reaches West Wales
  • The Rassa Tramway
  • TVR A Class short of puff?
  • Fatal accident at Burry Port
  • Plus ça change - Ammon Beasley's comments of 1907
  • Research integrity
  • Tail traffic - Letters, Notes and, possibly, Explanations .....


Volume 5 Number 1
WRA4_9
Contents:
  • The Barry Bit - Travelling without a ticket
  • By Batteries to Aberthaw? Proposals for electric traction
  • Stafford Blues - Growing up alongside a GWR canal
  • The Runaway Train ... from Coedygric to Newport
  • Parsons' Folly
  • 1866 Fatal Accident at Pant
  • Mystery Signalbox at Courtybella Jct.?
  • Free rides to Ferndale
  • The GWR and the Taff Vale engines
  • Explosion of Rhymney Ironworks No.9 - a postscript