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©Mark Hopkins

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©lyn exton

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©Gareth James

Dist:0.6km<br/>Horizontal duplex geared capstan built in 1887 by Llewellyn & Cubitt of Pentre and presumably installed here secondhand (Penallta was about 1906). This was an unusually big example with cylinders c16" x 33" and a 6' 2" diameter drum. This was in a separate and cramped engine house near the upcast shaft.

©Chris Allen

Dist:0.6km<br/>Still a working colliery in 1982. Large central power house, originally all steam. The brick building at the base of the right-hand head gear housed a large steam/compressed air winch. Now scrapped.
The pit had a modern high speed fan and we were taken in through the airlock to stand next to it on load.

Oh how I miss the 80s and the opportunities for serious "live" industrial archaeology!

©Chris Allen

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©Kev Griffin

Dist:0.6km<br/>The furthest pithead is in the next grid (the winding house straddles two grids)

©Chris Andrews

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©Gareth James

Dist:0.6km<br/>Coal empties climb from Ystrad Mynach towards Penalta Mine. It's a typical grey day and soon the rain will arrive. This was a short branch line to serve the mine. You will note the line has newish concrete railway sleepers and looks in good condition. I wonder if the tracks are still on site as it's a long time since any trains went up here and over twenty years since this photo was taken.

©roger geach

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©lyn exton

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©Mark Hopkins

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©Gareth James

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©Gareth James

Dist:0.9km<br/>Viewed from the site of the demolished Hengoed High Level station. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2036236

©John Grayson

Dist:0.9km<br/>Pantycelyn Street passes under a bridge that formerly carried a railway line.
The headroom is 10 feet 9 inches (3.3 metres). Not a route for a double-decker bus! The single-decker bus I arrived in was 9 feet 6 inches high, giving a small but comfortable clearance of 15 inches (0.4 metres).

©John Grayson

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