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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 3 Number 9
Contents:
  • The Saga of the Manchester and Milford Railway
  • Nant Hall, LNWR
  • Tales from the Incline Top, TVR
  • Inspection at Rhydyfelin
  • Breakdown Train Proposals
  • The Cowbridge Mail
Volume 3 Number 8

25th Anniversary Issue

 Contents:
  • Genesis - the origins of the WRRC
  • Private Owner Propaganda - a variant PO livery
  • The Main Incline Revisited - some prodigious effort on the TVR
  • A Bridge Too Far - a proposed Severn crossing
  • Last Passengers at Dowlais Central
  • Oh no! Not Ammonia Tanks Again!
  • Spotlight on Talsarnau
  • August Bank Holiday, 65 years ago
  • TVR 10T Open Goods c,1886-87
  • A Walk Around Blaenavon
  • Lad Porter at Aberbran
  • MT&A Coaching Stock
  • Branches Fork to Branches Forgotten!
  • Kilvert's Railways
  • Battle Stations and Battle Waggons......
  • A Fitters' Notebook - II
  • Rhymney Railway 3-plank Dropside Waggon
  • Dovey Junction Memories
  • Railway Miscellany
  • The Barry Bit
Volume 3 Number 6
Contents:
  • South Wales Signalling
  • Radyr in detail, Part 2
  • Poaching on the PTR
  • South Wales Mineral Railway
  • Last Saint in Cardiff
  • Last Train to Brecon
  • Cambrian 0-4-4T Locomotives
Volume 3 Number 5
Contents:
  • The Wye Bridge at Chepstow
  • More on Ammonia Traffic
  • Barry Steamers, Part 2
  • Radyr in detail
  • GWR 44xx in South Wales
  • Mill Street Fatality, 1870
Volume 3 Number 4
Contents:
  • Transport at Abercrave
  • LNWR Mainline Accident
  • Swansea Docks 1865 - an Update
  • Pant, Dowlais Recollections
  • Barry Steamers
  • Newport Puzzle
  • Rhiwbach Tramway
Volume 3 Number 3 Contents
  • B&M Watering Facilities
  • Mid Wales Through Carriages
  • Dean Singles at Newport
  • First British Industrial Garratt
  • Swansea Docks 1865
  • Ammonia Traffic on the MT&A
  • Pentir Rhiw
  • On the Vale of Neath in 1865
  • A(N&SW)D&R 0-4-0ST ALEXANDRA - whither its origin?
  • From Neath to Neath via Upper Bank
  • From Our Own Correspondent - Overcrowded Trains
  • Deeds and Misdeeds - Crimes on the line
  • The Barry Bit - A police inspector mis-employs his staff
Volume 3 Number 2 Contents
  • Mid Wales Through Carriages
  • Hull & Barnsley Coaches in South Wales
  • Cambrian Cameo - Moat Lane Junction
  • The Caerphilly Branch of the B&M
  • Clydach-on-Tawe North
  • LNWR Working Instructions at Ebbw Vale
  • Whoops! - A Mishap at Llantarnam Station
  • Tracking Railway Archives Project
  • Research for Modelling Mostyn
  • The Barry Bit - Distant Signals
Volume 3 Number 1
South Wales Railway Special		 Contents
  • The Grand Opening of the  SWR
  • The First Train - News reports of 1850
  • Contract 4N - The SWR’s Construction Manual
  • Passenger Traffic on the SWMR
  • Ferryside - A wayside signal box
  • Inspection of the SWR- From 'The Cambrian'
  • When the railway reached Newport
  • Landore Viaduct - An essay in wood
  • SWR Meat Vans
  • SWR Rolling Stock Drawings
  • The Swansea Terminus of the SWR
  • The Barry Bit - New facilities at Pwllgwaun