Held at:

Private Collection

Reference:

CG Smith Collection

Source:

Original photographs and notes

Title:

Digital Archive: Photographs of the Golden Valley Railway - Pandy

Place name:

Golden Valley

Date:

?1940s

Description:

PANDY

 

0233

 

Repairs to main line under the bridge at Pandy. Fixing bedstone for the outside girder of the Up Main on the buttress nearest to Pandy Station.

 

0249

 

Renewal of under bridge at Pandy. Removal of old girder [outside one] next to Up Main. [1 of group of 7 photographs]

 

0253

 

Renewal of main line under bridge at Pandy. [2 of 7]

 

0255

 

Renewal of main line under bridge at Pandy. [3 of 7]. Notice old buttress with crack from a point at the back of the forge to the left of the wall.

 

0259

 

Renewal of main line under bridge at Pandy. [4 of 7]. Work in progress on the Up Main.

 

0251

 

Renewal of main line under bridge at Pandy. [5 of 7]

 

9891

 

Renewal of main line under bridge at Pandy. [6 of 7]. Up Home and Loop signal in background.

 

 

0257

 

Unloading rails over the end of Gane A wagons between Pontrilas and Pandy on the Down Road. Pontrilas branch engine - wartime snap taken from the footplate.

 

Observations:

Original photographs from a collection by CG Smith, Engineman on the Golden Valley Branch of the Great Western Railway from 1924 to c.1960. Reproduced by kind permission of his son, David Smith of Ewyas Harold.

 

Return to Index page for photographs of other stations on the Golden Valley Branch.

 


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