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Dist:0.1km<br/>This road runs through the countryside north east of Ammanford. It's now blocked off so that no traffic can now use it and is now looking decidedly derelict. It was once used by trucks to access nearby opencast workings to avoid public roads.
©Hywel Williams
Dist:0.1km<br/>Shands Road provided a private road for mineral traffic to nearby open cast workings in the 1960s. Previous to this, the Mountain Branch of the Central Wales Line ran along this route and there was a level crossing. Today, it's closed and has remained unused for many years. Leaves cover the tarmac and a fallen tree obscures part of the road.
©Hywel Williams
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©Marion Phillips
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©Marion Phillips
Dist:0.3km<br/>The access to two public rights of way has been blocked by this fence. It looks temporary and there was quite a bit of evidence of heavy vehicles having recently accessed the site so some nearby building work may have necessitated the temporary closure of the paths.
©Hywel Williams
Dist:0.7km<br/>A rural scene, looking towards the Black Mountain in the distance. It's hard to believe, but until 1951 a mineral railway ran through this scene to the left of the picture, part of the Mountain Branch of the Central Wales Line that ran from Pantyffynon to Cross Hands, linking numerous collieries. Almost all of these have now closed.
©Hywel Williams
Dist:0.7km<br/>The modern map shows a right of way here to get back on the main road - and there is, but it requires you to descend to the river below and wade across. There has been fly tipping in the mouth of the junction on the far side and this blocks the stile. Luckily the fence is broken so it doesn't matter so much. The surface has presumably been removed from the bridge to dissuade the more high-volume fly tippers from trying to get to the secluded land beyond.
©Nigel Davies
Dist:0.7km<br/>On the left, the Loughor approaches from the east, on the right, the Marlais approaches from the north. The river continues southwest into the distance as the Loughor.
©Nigel Davies
Dist:0.8km<br/>This bridge used to continue Shand's Road towards Llandybie, however years of neglect have now rendered it quite derelict and dangerous to cross. The road was once a mineral railway line (part of the Mountain Branch from the Mid Wales line) but in the late 1960s, a road was built to allow private access to opencast workings. Since the opencasts have now long gone, the road is now abandoned. It can be followed (from the other side of the bridge) all the way to just outside Llandybie where it would have crossed the B4556 into the now landscaped opencast workings.
©Hywel Williams
Dist:0.8km<br/>A derelict railway bridge is one of the only signs left that a railway used to run along this route. Not part of the main railway itself, which ran along the course occupied today by a private road, this bridge served a short siding used by the nearby tinplate works and mines.
©Hywel Williams
Dist:0.8km<br/>There are quite a few derelict vehicles parked along this stretch of Shand's Road, a private mineral road built along the course of an old railway branch. The vehicles are probably part of the large scrap yard that now occupies the old tinplate works, just beyond.
©Hywel Williams
Dist:0.9km<br/>In front, the road bridge over the river. Beyond, the railway bridge with the very low headroom of 7 feet 9 inches.
©Marion Phillips
Dist:0.9km<br/>This public cemetery is on a hill just outside town, to the west.
©Nigel Davies
Dist:0.9km<br/>The yellow container holds salt and grit for use on the road in frosty weather.
©Marion Phillips
Dist:1.0km<br/>Blaenau Primary School.
©Marion Phillips

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