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Dowlais Central Station

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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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)

DMU at Dowlais Central Station in the 1960s

 
Ex Taff Vale 0-6-2T No262 - 1935.

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