17:32 That is unlike any toad I’ve seen in my life
@MM562024 күн бұрын
It seems to have omitted Pont Lawrence halt?
@ryleeculla5570Ай бұрын
That’s the true Percy just with a 0-6-0 wheel arrangement 11:02
@SuperBC102 ай бұрын
Great stuff. Hard to believe that during those days all those lovely working beasts were taken for granted and just looked upon as everyday regular modes of transport. Looking back we can appreciate just how amazing those locos were. Sad.
@welshcourtland2 ай бұрын
Great Film but his commentary/ pronunciation is awful.
@OlafProt2 ай бұрын
You've got to wonder if there was green GWR paint underneath all that lovely grime 3:00! You can just see the logo! At least the variety was still there in the 90s. Now all trains look the same! Bring back loco-hauled passenger traffic! You forget just how 80s, the 90s were
@phildavies60202 ай бұрын
It’s Penrhiwceiber! NOT Penrhiwcaber!
@phildavies60203 ай бұрын
Wasn’t there another little colliery, Beynons, just a little further up the valley?
@davidpowell60983 ай бұрын
My Grandfather was born in Abertillerty, and won the MM in WW1, he worked at Cwm pit. Grand Parents on my Mother's side were from Frome, in Somerset, and came to Blaina to find work, though they didn't all work down the pit, one was a Cabinet Maker, and had a furniture shop in Blaina.
@Pigpenned3 ай бұрын
No- but I was there. Age 4 with my Mam & Dad. My Dad took a picture of me stood in front of Sophia Loren with her hands on my shoulders. Gregory Peck is in the background chatting to people. My Mam's family were from Treowen, my Dad's were Roma so I don't know much about where they came from but they bought a farm in Wattsville but when my grandfather got killed in the pit they settled in Treowen. I remember the viaduct because it was condemned but us kids used to dare each other. Most of the walkways were rotted by then so you could walk on the 6" wide iron on the spans that held the wood. I never made it more than 1/3rd of the way but some kids crossed it.
@allenlloyd10743 ай бұрын
Superb.
@dianerogers88054 ай бұрын
My dad worked for Corona pop which was based there.
@revol1484 ай бұрын
Just look at the comments here - the British are wedded to their cars almost as bad as the Americans - yet when it comes to railways (they hardly ever use) they go all weak at the knees !
@mikeh54314 ай бұрын
Superb footage! Thank you
@lucythorne69945 ай бұрын
🚂👍👍
@scifidesign25 ай бұрын
mesmerizing film.
@philnewcomers91705 ай бұрын
i make parts for 44123
@DaveinLeeds6 ай бұрын
A fantastic video, thank you. Not being good with heights though, I don't think I would have fancied a trip over it!
@terrell1126 ай бұрын
Can somebody tell me who was Jane Collins born 1650 • Ystradgynlais, Breconshire, Wales & died ABT 1720 • Fairfield Estate, St James, Jamaica?
@pete66456 ай бұрын
This structure should have been preserved as a listed monument - even if trains were no longer using it. It would have been perfect to walk/cycle over. It is criminal that the powers that be have just been allowed to demolish it.
@mwscuba6 ай бұрын
Tho it’s spelt Ynysddu lol
@bradleymilton93726 ай бұрын
Bargoes is full of smack heads the days and it's all dead an lost same as Caerphilly its very sad
@swanvictor8877 ай бұрын
Its the breathtaking audacity of the Victorians that always amazes me! The Crumlin Viaduct is just...well....just the sheer imagination and guts they had: There's a gap we need filled for our trains; "Build a Viaduct!!" and they bloody Did!! lol.
@swanvictor8877 ай бұрын
wonderful film, thanks for sharing. As a Welshman now living in S.E Asia, always nice to see my old hometown of Swansea. At 10.00 or so, there was the comment "It is now a Wasteland..." which for me, sadly, sums up a great deal of what was once the United Kingdom. Perhaps if we, the British, stopped electing people to run our country simply on the basis that they have a posh voice and a First from Oxbridge, in Greats, then maybe we might get somewhere....
@Cool2BCeltic7 ай бұрын
A very dramatic looking bridge.
@simonpilk7 ай бұрын
The two locos being 37198 and 37003 which are both ex NE locos.
@MajorKirrahe7 ай бұрын
My dad tells me he managed to run onto the set and shook Gregory Peck's hand
@CP-vq3cz8 ай бұрын
As a Maerdy boy now living in Bridgend (don't judge me 😬😆) this series was fantastic to watch!
@user-jw2dw2ue5p8 ай бұрын
Y dad born Dinas hill on the left going up towards trealaw - has anyone got any photos of the 3 cottages that have since been demolished david
@rosewhite---8 ай бұрын
Thatcher hated the workers.
@itsmegareth96633 ай бұрын
Seems like Conservative hate working class people in general
@lyndonisaac65698 ай бұрын
J.B. JONES. Corn and feed Merchant just below viaduct, Used to deliver to our farm at Manmoel. Always popped down to their depot if we ran short of anything. Happy times. Lyndon Isaac.
@paulbeynon98358 ай бұрын
Thank you very much Martin., I moved to crumlin in 1974 ,heard a lot about the filming, didn't see the film until the eighties. Have tried for some time to work out the film shots.no longer live in wales
@martinbrown6998 ай бұрын
Lived near there, where they were running I and others walked across on numerous occasions 1 old penny was the cost to catch the train When watching notice the colour change of the river 😊
@laurenceskinnerton739 ай бұрын
A pity it still isn’t here.
@PaulRedman-wr9ht9 ай бұрын
Nice one man I got it
@BobCratchit-7739 ай бұрын
Vintage SWV footage here. .Tidy
@BobCratchit-7739 ай бұрын
God Bless the Mardy Monster!
@stevenedwards21629 ай бұрын
Junior production clerk my first job leaving school as a 15 year old in 1970 at Black Clawsons, £4-19 -6p my first wage, everone said they could of made it a fiver.😂
@paulbeynon983510 ай бұрын
Crumlin people good people I should know, lived there 74 - 78
@neilewart434710 ай бұрын
Its true that there were deliberate policies in place to make sure these railways did not pay. However, there was a mixture of the public who increasingly didnt travel by train or were discouraged. The car was king and there was a terrible lack of foresight by the politicians
@jasonbroom797110 ай бұрын
Fantastic
@amfwelsh10 ай бұрын
Any plans to upload more?
@PricelessContent1310 ай бұрын
I live in the village today. The only thing that has really changed is that the railways are gone, the mining places hace been replaced with schools and there are way more trees.
@markevans726910 ай бұрын
The view from the train going over the viaduct must of been amazing .anyone rem member going over the viaduct so sad 😢to see it all gone the roads are a mess now should of kept the the trains .full respect for the men who built .and took the viaduct down must of been a lot of hard work ❤👍
@paulbeynon983511 ай бұрын
Just caught a glimpse of the lorry I drove for Arthur miles .
@paulbeynon983511 ай бұрын
Does anybody know what side of the valley the caravans where parked, i think swyffrd .anybody know.
@martinbrown6998 ай бұрын
Treowen side
@r0g3r5m1th11 ай бұрын
B&M video and DVD
@jetplane1011 ай бұрын
I was born at 4 Somerset Road, off Caerleon Road.. back in the day
@powell272167 Жыл бұрын
My old boss Stan Ward … my first job at Newport Shipping back in the day . Good days .
@iant9461 Жыл бұрын
Would love to have heard the sound of those piers coming down. Shame it’s gone though, looked great.