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Viewed across a football field on the south side of Bwlch Youth and Community Centre. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2894484
©John Grayson
Dist:0.1km<br/>Located near Morfa Junction near the Docks, this was a major Depot, which provided the locomotives working in Llanelli Docks and the various Yards in the area (Llandilo Junction etc.) as well as motive power for the freight traffic out of the area, on the South Wales main line and the Central Wales line. Coded 87F, it had an allocation of 88 locomotives in 1954, which included 'indigenous' engines of the ex-Burry Port & Gwendraeth Valley Railway as well as numerous standard ex-Great Western classes, especially pannier-tanks. The 88 comprised: 3 4-6-0s, 3 2-8-0s, 4 2-6-0s, 5 2-8-2Ts, 17 2-8-0Ts, 2 0-6-2Ts and no less than 54 0-6-0Ts. In 1958 there would have been little change and this photographs features: 2-8-2T No. 7211 and 0-6-0Ts Nos. 1633, 3642, 1607 and 5722. The Depot closed on 14/9/65.
©Ben Brooksbank
Dist:0.1km<br/>Ex-Burry Port & Gwendraeth Valley Railway (later GWR) 0-6-0T No. 2198 was built in 1910 and not withdrawn until 3/59; it was one that never acquired a name.
©Ben Brooksbank
Dist:0.1km<br/>See also [[[2073546]]]. Almost all Llanelly Depot's substantial fleet were in the big roundhouse that Sunday in 1958, each arm around the turntable being able to accommodate two Panniers. These are Nos. 1615 (built 12/49, withdrawn 6/61) and 1665 (built 4/55, withdrawn just nine years later in 7/64). These were steam shunting engines of essentially 19th century design built at the same time as Diesels were in use for shunting nearly everywhere else.
©Ben Brooksbank
Dist:0.1km<br/>Compare [[2073546]]. On the same day, a photograph in the other roundhouse reveals five 'non-standard' locomotives, none of them of Great Western origin. They are:- ex-London & North Western 0-8-0 No. 49117, ex-Railway Operating Division (ROD, World War I) 2-8-0 GWR No. 3011, 0-8-0s Nos. 49177 and 49226, and a new BR 350hp 0-6-0 Diesel shunter No. 13353. The 0-8-0s were from Swansea Paxton Street Depot and may have been superfluous to requirements on the Central Wales line, but they were not withdrawn for another year.
©Ben Brooksbank
Dist:0.1km<br/>Located on the SW side of Bwlch Youth and Community Centre. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2894484
©John Grayson
Dist:0.1km<br/>The wooden sculpture is in the SW corner of the Centre's http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2894484 site.
©John Grayson
Dist:0.1km<br/>Set back from the south side of Dafen Row in the Morfa district of Llanelli.
©John Grayson
Dist:0.2km<br/>Pub in the Morfa district of Llanelli, on the corner of Cornish Place and Glandafen Road. Some sources state that the pub is on Dafen Row, but the street name sign at the corner of the pub shows Glandafen Road.
©John Grayson
Dist:0.2km<br/>The benches are at the western edge of the Centre. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2894484
©John Grayson
Dist:0.2km<br/>Viewed across Dafen Row in the Morfa district of Llanelli. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2894245 to a front view.
©John Grayson
Dist:0.2km<br/>Located on Cornish Place near the corner of Dafen Row in the Morfa district of Llanelli. The year shown in the roundel on the chapel wall is 1869.
©John Grayson
Dist:0.3km<br/>A recently built Lidl supermarket in Machynys
©Hywel Williams
Dist:0.3km<br/>Viewed across the B4304. The orangey-brown roofed supermarket is about 75 metres long. Its address shown on the Lidl website is Machynys Link Road.
©John Grayson
Dist:0.3km<br/>Looking south along The Avenue towards the junction with the Coastal Link Road.
©John Grayson

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