Welsh Railways Research Circle

*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. The current volume is Volume 4, although back issues for all issues apart from Volume 1, Numbers 3-4 are available from the Circle through the *Sales* page. Contributions to the WRA from members are always welcomed by the Editor. If you are able to contribute, please contact *wraeditor@wrrc.org.uk*

Volume 4 Volume 3 Volume 2 Volume 1

Volume 4 Number 7	Contents: The Barry Bit - Fire at Llantwit Major A Railway Clearing House Job Pontardawe Steelworks R W Kidner and the Oakwood Press The Reverend R Venables: railway Signalman A Narrow Gauge Interlude Brecon & Merthyr Trains - Not for the Quick, but the Dead? Great Western 36xx 2-4-2Ts in South Wales Gauge Narrowing Between Gloucester and Hereford Dealing with Goods Trains and Broad Gauge Vehicles The Mining Journal’s View of the Narrow Gauge in Wales

Volume 4 Number 6	Contents: The Barry Bit - An unscheduled stop Shropshire & Montgomery shire Llanelly Harbour 7 Pontardulais Railway The Shropshire Holiday Express Rhondda & Swansea Bay Mix Glyncorrwg Postcard Taff Vale Connection GWR 39xx in South Wales Crossing the Severn

Volume 4 Number 5	Contents: Transition at Barry 1920-1930 B&M Waggons at GKN Steel Sleeper Works The Digedi Brook Mishap A Day at the Seaside - excursions to Aberystwyth in August 1957 Cardiff Railway Covered Goods Waggon - General Arrangement drawing and notes Dimbath revisited - 1. Caersws - the Cambrian Railways Village A(N&SW)D&R ‘Regulations as to Private Owner Waggons’ Transcript of official document My Time on the Rhondda Fach Branch The South Wales Ironworks - A column from The Times of August 1879 Fatality near Fochriw - Board of Trade Accident Report of 1868 Dimbath Revisited - 2.

Volume 4 Number 4	Contents: The Press in the 1920s Oswestry North End Postcard from Waunlwyd Burrows Siding Revisited and...... .... Moderator Sidings Revisted Rhymney-built Covered Goods Waggons The Dimbath Branch Llanfyllin Branch Pt.II

Volume 4 Number 3	Contents: London & South Wales Railway Scheme of 1824/25 More on Moderator Sidings Worked, Not Absorbed - the PTR’s working arrangements with the GWR Two for the B&M Modellers Gwaith y Lamb Postscript The Barry Bit Yet More About Class 14s Brecon & Merthyr Railway 4-wheel Saloons The Midland Interloper - Whitney-on-the-Wye’s bridge Burrows Boxes - Three signal boxes along Crumlin Burrows Taff Vale Traffic Miscellany - 1841 to 1896 Monmouthshire Mishaps - On the Cwmnantddu branch Llanfyllin Branch

Volume 4 Number 2	Contents: From our Own Correspondent - unearthed comments about the Rhymney Railway Getting a Handle on Private Owner Waggons Penmaenpool Ticket The Barry Bit - Accidents at Barry Docks Gwaith y Lamb - An industrial site at Garnant Holiday Traffic on the Cambrian The Llangurig Branch A Clutch of D95xx Penarth - From coal to garden by the sea A Busy Day at Kerry - traffic on livestock market days

Volume 4 Number 1	Contents: The Barry Bit - Supply of Locomotives, 1906 Cambrian Railways Saloon No.1 Out of the Cupboard - three news cuttings from the 1850s Llanbedr & Pensarn Talyllyn Junction - Life and times of a country junction An Eclectic Mix - isolated halts D95xx Leave South Wales D95xx History Moderator Sidings, Newport

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