Ely Valley Railway
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ely-valley-railway-172-17417054
title:
Ely Valley Railway
text:
The Ely Valley Railway (EVR) was a broad gauge railway company in South Wales, which opened a mineral line between Llantrisant station on the South Wales Railway main line and pits at Mwyndy and Penrhiwfer in 1860. It was unsuccessful financially, and was leased to the Great Western Railway in 1861. The network suffered from being on the broad gauge when many pits and rival railways used the narrow (standard) gauge, but the GWR extended the network into Cwm Clydach and the line became heavily us
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description:
Railway in south Wales, United Kingdom
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ely_Valley_Railway
date created:
2011-02-17T18:14:59Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T22:49:57Z
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13
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