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Just part of the extensive cemetery to the East of the village
©Chris Shaw
©Chris Shaw
Looking NE near centre of square
©Chris Shaw
Dist:0.2km<br/>Port Talbot & Bae Abertawe o'r Goetre Port Tabot & Swansea Bay from Goetre
©Alan Richards
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©John Salmon
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©John Salmon
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©John Salmon
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©John Salmon
Dist:0.5km<br/>View NE up the Cwm Duffryn valley on the ex-Port Talbot Railway line - at 1-in-40 - to Maesteg and Pontyrhyll, which was closed to passengers on 11/9/33, to goods on 31/8/64. The banker is Collett '8750' class 0-6-0PT No. 9634 (built 1/46, withdrawn 5/64).
©Ben Brooksbank
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©Mick Lobb
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©Mick Lobb
Dist:0.7km<br/>View northward, with the line to Maesteg going away to the right. Thirteen years after the previous view [[2071608]], it seems that the Depot has now acquired some tender engines, as two 'Halls' are in view: 5903 'Keele Hall' and 6974 'Bryngwyn Hall', along with 0-6-2T No. 6633, 2-8-0T No. 4256 and 0-6-0T No. 4695 - and no dirty sheep.
©Ben Brooksbank
Dist:0.7km<br/>View NW from the road from Taibach up the Cwm Duffryn. The Shed was located beside the ex-GW (Port Talbot Rly.) lines from Pontyrhyll down to the Port Talbot Docks, closed to passengers on 11/9/33 and to goods on 31/8/64, the Shed being closed on 2/3/64. Here in 1949 it was still very active - and the local sheep got very dirty! In 1950 Duffryn Yard Depot (code 87B) had an allocation of 56 engines, all tank engines: 7 2-8-0Ts, 1 2-6-2T, 15 0-6-2Ts and 33 0-6-0Ts.
©Ben Brooksbank
Dist:0.7km<br/>The cwm runs between Mynydd Emroch and Mynydd Margam. The houses lie between Pen-y-cae and Taibach with the latter probably claiming 'sovereignty'!
©Mick Lobb
Dist:0.8km<br/>On the edge of the small hillside village of Pen-y-cae this road leads to a lane to the top of Mynydd Emroch. The 'road', to the right, is little more than a paved track that rather contradicts its status on the map.
©Mick Lobb

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