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WELSH RAILWAYS ARCHIVE Index to Volume 5 Issues and page numbers No 1 May 2010 pp1-24 No 2 November 2010 pp 25-48 No 3 May 2011 pp 49-72 No 4 November 2011 pp 73-96 No 5 May 2012 pp 97-120 No 6 November 2012 pp 120-144 No 7 May 2013 pp 145-168 No 8 November 2013 pp 169-192 No 9 May 2014 pp 193-216 No 10 November 2014 pp 217-240 Supplement April 2015 pp1-32 Suffix D = detailed drawing(s) Suffix M = track diagram(s) or detailed map(s) Suffix P = photograph(s) Tail Traffic is the Letters section Page numbers in the Supplement are prefixed S AUTHOR INDEX A Anderson, N: Tail Traffic: Newbridge-on-Wye, 144 B Backhouse, R: Tail Traffic: Life at Dolwen, 120 Basten, C: Rhiwbina Halt, 5P Bowen, R: The Y9 wee puggies. The LNER reaches West Wales, 43P C Cannop Price, M: Caerbryn to Crosshands. The upper end of the Mountain branch, 219MP Day return to Morriston, 152P Dewi’s remarkable railcar, 202P Fatal accident at Burry Port (1892), 46 Some late Gladstonian journeys, 171P Some vanished Welsh passenger services, 154 The Y9 wee puggies. The LNER reaches West Wales, 43P Caston, R: A case of mistaken identities – the 1866 accident at Pant, 13MP, 48 B&M 2-4-0T no 21, 34DP Courtybella – a mystery solved? 31P ‘Familiarity breeds contempt’ or Tragedy at Torpantau, 136P Tail Traffic: Bury engine, 24 Tail Traffic: Leanings, 120 Tail Traffic: Photograph of B&M no 24, 216 Tail Traffic: Railway accident at Maes-y-Cwmmer, 240 Tail Traffic: Talybont-on-Usk, 120 Chapman, C: Free rides to Ferndale, 16P Coggan, I: Accidents at Fochriw, 74 Suburban rail passenger traffic in South Wales: 1924-1964, 78 Coulthurst, R: ‘A dreadful accident’ on the Vale of Neath Railway, 1866, 70M Crump, R: TVR A class short of puff? 45P D David, J: Cylla branch, 87M Rhymney Railway 1872 and 1877 locomotive coal wagons, 132DP Rhymney Railway standard wagons, 95 Rhymney Railway workmen’s trains, 225 Rhymney ruminations, 165P, Tail Traffic, 216 Shaded or not? 189P Tail Traffic: A Scotsman in Neath? 143 Tail Traffic: RR covered goods wagons, 96 Tail Traffic: Workmen’s trains in the Rhymney valley, 168P Three Rhymney Railway goods vehicles, 90D Workmen’s trains on the Rhymney Railway, 113P Davies, G: ‘Sir John Wyndham Beynon’ jumps the rails at Tredegar, 36MP Dore-Dennis, J: GWR enterprise. Improving facilities at Cardiff, 194 Electrification of railways. Prospect of development in South Wales, 210 E Edwards, J: Tail Traffic: The Y9 wee puggies, 72 Ellis, D: Records of steam in the Eastern Valley, 32MP Ellis, R Ab: Tail Traffic: Research integrity, 72 Evans, R: Coals to London . by the scenic route! 66 F Ford, A: A signal box mystery at Courtybella Jct, Newport, 15M H Hambly, M: Clywedog revisited, 131M Tail Traffic: Newbridge-on-Wye, 144 Headon, A: Cylla branch, 115M Tail Traffic: Engine shed at Pant, 48 Hodge, J: Canton a century ago, 106P Newport 100 years ago, 215P The GWR and Taff Vale engines, 17P, 48 The GWR and the Rhymney engines. Part 1 – The saddle tank classes, 38P The GWR and the Rhymney engines. Part 2 – The side tank classes, 51P The GWR and the Brecon & Merthyr engines, 80P J Jarvis, J: South Wales Mineral miscellany, 154M The Saturdays only passenger train service between Tonmawr and Port Talbot Central, 143P The South Wales Mineral Railway and the great rejoicing in hoinour of its commencement, 151M The South Wales Mineral Railway and the Gyfylchi tunnel collision, 186M Johnson, P: Tail Traffic: Scafell, 143 L Lawton, P: Taking the train, 175P The arrival of the railways in Corwen 1864-5, 123MP Lewis, B: Early Vale of Neath Railway junctions at Neath, 86MP Lewis, J: Tail Traffic: Newbridge-on-Wye, 144 Rebuilding Black Bridge, near Pontdolgoch, 130MP Lewis, I: Cataloguing the Swindon drawings, 99DP M Mann, J: Tail Traffic:Gilbertson’s private siding, 192 The Rassa Tramway, 44P Marks, M & F: A steep learning curve, 116 Martin-Mason, R: Rhiwbina Halt and Railway track S bend, 5P Maund, R: A race to the Gwaun Cae Gurwen coalfield – a postscript, 42M Maund, R: Coals to London – by the scenic route! 96 Research integrity, 47 Tail Traffic: A dreadful accident, 96 Tail Ttraffic: Aberystw(i/y)th, 96 Tail Traffic: Rail v road, 96 Tail Traffic: Scafell, 143 Tail Traffic: South Wales Mineral Railway, 144 Tail Traffic: Working the Taff Bargoed, 168 The tribulations of the Ellesmere Loop, Wrexham & Ellesmere Railway, 176M Through carriage workings on the Cambrian Railways, 208P McCarthy, T: David Bowen, B&MR driver – his log summer 1916, 195MP David Bowen, B&MR driver – his log summer 1916 – conclusion, 228MP Musings on Rhymney Railway locomotives, 78 Plus ça change . 47 Port Talbot Railway no 1, 115P The Inspectors called at Bargoed station (Rhymney Railway), 138MP McCloy, R: Suburban rail passenger traffic in South Wales: 1924-1964. Part 1 – to WWII, 56MP Suburban rail passenger traffic in South Wales: 1924-1964. Part 2 – from WWII, 75MP Miles, J: Swansea Vale private sidings, 166M, Tail Traffic, 192 Tail Traffic: Wenvoe station, 240 Miller, A: Foreword, 2, 26, 50, 74, 98, 122, 146, 170, 194, 218 Wenvoe station house, 218P Miller, B: The Barry bit: Through workings in high summer, 26 Moores, D: Railway track S bend, 5P Mundy, D: Rhymney Railway locomotive no 14, model, 95P N Neale, S: The railway accident at Maes-y-Cwmmer, B&M,, 10th June 1869, 206MP P Parsons, S: Railway running powers in West Wales, 147MP The opening of the Pencader mixed gauge section, 1st January 1866, 62MP Phillips, A V: Penywern to Pontsarn. The story of the Morlais tunnel, 158MP Poole, B: Life at Dolwen, 88MP The Clywedog Dam III. The final instalment, 191P The dam builders, 102P The railway ladies of the upper Severn Valley, 1940-1945, 162P Price, R: Tail Traffic: GWR and Taff Vale engines, 48 Prosser, B: Tail Traffic: Port Talbot Railway offices, 168P R Reynolds, P: List of memorials, 98 Parson’s Folly: a few questions and a few suggestions, 9MP Tail Traffic: Rhymney Ironworks explosion, 5P Tail Traffic: Talybont-on-Usk, 120 The Vale of Neath & Cefn Mawr Junction Railway, 27MP S Simmonds, R: South Wales Mineral Railway stock, 187P Tail Traffic: The ‘Safety’ movement, 24 Smith, D A: Dylan Morlais Thomas (1914-1953), 226 Stagg, R: Tail Traffic: Water column flues and terminals, 120 Stephens, M: Recovering 6676, 65P The road to Morriston, 184P Studley, D: Ehedydd, 185P Modellers’ page: G KN workmen’s carriages, 142P Rhymney Railway wagon no 452, 201DP T Taylor, R: Ex-Rhymney engines at work, 120 Thomas, K: Sale of Tareni Colliery, 1928, 68MP Tomkiss, D: Outward bound, 211P Tail Traffic: B&M train staff, 216P Tail Traffic: R&SB safety lamp, 216P Tail Traffic: Wenvoe station, 192 Trains to Tremains (supplement), S1-S32 W Wassell, N: Tail Traffic: Dolwen and Scafell, 120 Watkins, A: ‘Stafford blues’ – growing up alongside a GWR canal, 6P Tail Traffic: Newbridge-on-Wye, 143 Tales of Old Radnor, 234MP Watkins, T: B&M 2-4-0T no 21, 34DP Newbridge-on-Wye, 110MP Obituary: Peter Korrison 1934-2012, 119P Talybont station (Brecon & Merthyr Railway), 85P Weatherill, B: B^MR no 24, 192P Worth, M S: By batteries to Aberthaw? 3MP SUBJECT INDEX A A case of mistaken identities – the 1866 accident at Pant, R Caston, 12MP, 48 ‘A dreadful accident’, Aberdare, 1866, R Coulthurst, 70M, 96 A local eisteddfod in 1903 (Barry)? A Miller, 146 A race to the Gwaun Cae Gurwen coalfield – a postscript, R Maund, 42M, 72P A Scotsman in Neath? 143 A signal box mystery at Courtybella Jct, Newport, A Ford, 15M, 31P A steep learning curve . and a lesson in supervising contractors, M & F Marks, 116 Aberdare tramway system, 56 Accidents: Aberdare, Vale of Neath section, GWR, 1866, 70M, 96 Accidents at Fochriw, I Coggan, 74 Derailed locomotive at Ogmore Vale, 65 Fatal accident at Burry Port, 1892, 46 ‘Familiarity breeds contempt’ or tragedy at Torpantau, 136MP Gyfylchi tunnel collision, SWMR, 186MP Hawarden, bridge collapse near, 171 Maes-y-Cymmer, B&M, 10th June 1869, 206MP, 240 Margam Moors, 3 December 1941, S21 Pant, 1866, 12MP, 48 Recovering 6676, 65P Rhymney Ironworks explosion of loco no 9, 24 Runaway train from Coedygric to Newport, 8 Shocking accident at Vochriw, 1872, 74 Sir John Wyndham Beynon jumps the rails at Aberdare, 36MP Wagon containing acid on fire, 1951, 74 Alexandra Docks & Railway, see Railway companies Avon Valley Railway, see Railway companies B Barry bit, 2, 26, 30, 98, 122, 146, 240P Barry Railway, see Railway companies Barry Railway water tank for Coity (Bridgend), 94P Blaen Pelena Peat Charcoal Co, 29 Breakdown train, Ebbw Junction, 65 Brecon & Merthyr Railway, see Railway companies Brickwork and tile works at Emlyn Colliery, 223 Bridges and viaducts: Bargoed road and foot bridges, 138P Black Bridge, Pontdolgoch, B Lewis, 130MP Cambrian Railways timber overbridge near Pentrefelin, 204D Dee Bridge, Corwen, 126P Fforchdwm, 11P Howarden swing bridge, 171 Llanbradach viaduct, 200P Neath, Vale of Neath Railway, 86MP Pont Abergwenffrwd, Tonmawr, 135P Rassa Tramway, 44P Signal for swing bridge, Cardiff Railway, 114D Viaducts and junction at Neath, GWR an VoNR, 86P Walnut Tree (model), 72P British Railways, see Railway companies Buildings and structures, see individual railway companies Bury engine, 24 Burry Port & Gwendraeth Valley Railway, see Railway companies By batteries to Aberthaw? M S Worth, 3MP C Caerbryn to Crosshands: the upper end of the Mountain Branch, M Cannop Price, 219MP Calves, transfer from rail to road, Newbridge-on-Wye, 112P, 143 Cambrian Railways, see Railway companies Canals: Brecon & Abergavenny Canal, 5P Canton a century ago, J Hodge, 106P Cardiff Railway, see Railway companies Cardiff tramway
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