PHOTO RAILWAY BRIDGE TALYBONT-ON-USK JUST BELOW BRIDGE 143 THIS FORMER RAILWAY

Description: EXTRA INFOPHOTO RAILWAY BRIDGE TALYBONT-ON-USK JUST BELOW BRIDGE 143 THIS FORMER RAILWAY BRIDGE CROSSES THE MONMOUTHSHIRE & BRECON CANAL. THE RAILWAY WAS ORIGINALLY OPENED IN 1863 PASSENGER SERVICES BEING WITHDRAWN AT THE END OF 1962 - INTERESTINGLY ALSO THE YEAR THAT THE CANAL WAS FORMALLY ABANDONED (ALTHOUGH OF COURSE IT HAS SINCE BEEN RESTORED). PRIOR TO CLOSURE THE LINE CARRIED A REGULAR SERVICE BETWEEN NEWPORT AND BRECON; CURIOUSLY HOWEVER RAILWAY AND CANAL FOLLOWED AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT ROUTE BETWEEN THE TWO TOWNS - THIS BEING THE ONLY POINT AT WHICH THEY CROSSED. TRAINS RAN VIA BARGOED DOWLAIS AND TALYLLYN JUNCTION WHEREAS THE CANAL PASSES THROUGH CWMBRAN PONTYPOOL AND CLOSE TO ABERGAVENNY. IN 1962 TRAINS TOOK MORE THAN TWO AND A HALF HOURS TO COVER THE 47 MILES WITH 21 INTERMEDIATE STOPS; IT IS PERHAPS UNSURPRISING THAT THEY WERE NOT VERY POPULAR. 2009 COPYRIGHT (Photograph and text in Extra Info) STEPHEN MCKAY PHOTO PAPER THICKNESS NORMAL PHOTOGRAPH THICKNESS NOTES REF NO SMV-4177 PHOTO SIZE SIZE 6 X 4 inches CONDITION: SOME CROPPING OR WHITE LINES TOP/BOTTOM MAY OCCUR DUE TO PHOTO RATIO WATERMARK IF PRESENT ON THE IMAGE WILL NOT APPEAR ON ITEM SENT TO YOU: NOTES This is a print and supply service for an image that is COPYRIGHT (Photograph and text in Extra Info) Stephen McKay obtained from GEOGRAPH and licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic License Details available here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ MANY OTHER ITEMS ARE BEING ADDED TO MY SHOP DAILY

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