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Dowlais Central Station |
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Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil. |
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Dowlais Central Station Once known as Dowlais Lloyd Street Station, and locally Dowlais Tip Station. It was closed to passengers in 1960. (These were workmens trains that ran all the way to------PANT! This station is now the Dowlais Leisure Centre. |
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Dowlais Central Station on the 13th of September 1951. In the background is the Ifor Works Foundry of Guest Keen, which was closed in 1987 after 200 years of iron making. |
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Dowlais Central Station 1922. |
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Dowlais Central Station - 1922. Steve Griffiths
tells us: "This is a rare and historically important shot showing the
original B&MR engine shed, which was destroyed in a fire (c. 1925?) and was
replaced with a smaller, simpler GWR standard pattern one-road shed."
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No 5711 at Dowlais Central Station on the 3rd June 1950. |
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Last Train - Brecon to Merthyr - 1964. (Photograph Courtesy of Geoff Matsell) |
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DMU at Dowlais Central Station in the 1960s |
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| 57xx Pannier Tank Engine No262 - 1935. | ||
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