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Dist:0.3km<br/>This housing development at Old Farm Court, Trallwn, near Swansea, has an interesting entrance. There were no sentries posted in the two "guard houses" either side of the archway on the day I visited...
©Kevin Flynn
Dist:0.3km<br/>This pub, between Pentre-dwr, Trallwn and Winsh-wen, sits at a "saddle" in the ridge separating the Swansea Valley from Crymlyn Bog and near the summit of roads leading up from each of these locations. Situated beside a former main road from Neath to Swansea, it is to the distance between these two towns that the "halfway" probably refers.
©Kevin Flynn
Dist:0.6km<br/>Houses in Winsh-Wen.
©Burgess Von Thunen
Dist:0.7km<br/>Bungalows in Llansamlet.
©Burgess Von Thunen
Dist:1.0km north<br/>This is all that remains of a road that used to link Peniel Green with Heol Las in the Llansamlet area. The road was intersected by a new road development [307502] and this photograph was taken from the same location as that one.
©Hywel Williams
Dist:1.1km north<br/>Llansamlet railway station has "staggered" platforms, one each side of Bethel Road (which crosses the line by an overbridge at this point). This view, looking west, is of the platform, beyond the bridge, called at by eastbound local trains from Swansea to Cardiff.
©Kevin Flynn
Dist:1.1km north<br/>Looking east along the platform served by westbound Cardiff to Swansea local trains.
©Kevin Flynn
Dist:1.2km south<br/>Seepage from old coal mines deposits iron-rich sediment near the head of the Glan-y-Wern Canal (1790), reputed to be the first canal in Wales. There is a treacherous vegetation mat over soft peat.
©Kevin Gilman
Dist:1.2km east<br/>
©Cedwyn Davies
Dist:1.3km northwest<br/>
©Ruth Sharville
Dist:1.3km northeast<br/>Winter sun catches these classic semi-detached houses in the suburbs of Swansea.
©Ruth Sharville
Dist:1.3km southwest<br/>This rugby club was the one featured in the BBC's documentary series "The Rugby Club". I think it was also the one used in the film "Twin Town"
©Nigel Davies
Dist:1.3km northeast<br/>Somehow this massive pylon manages to look magnificent in the winter sun.
©Ruth Sharville
Dist:1.3km west<br/>This 1998 view shows the former entrance to the preserved line run by the Swansea Vale Railway Society. The incline used to lead to the SVR's Six Pit Station. A double track viaduct used to continue from an abutment on the right hand side and continue across the road towards Llansamlet. This line originally opened as part of the Swansea Vale Railway in the 1870s. It was taken over by the Midland Railway in 1876 and additional through routes were added as a result. Passenger services ceased in 1950 and complete closure took place in the 1960s. By 1985 the only railway here was the section preserved by the SVR Society. In 2007, Swansea Council decided to redevelop the area and by 2010 the preserved railway was itself history, although the society itself lives on.
©vectorkraft
Dist:1.3km northeast<br/>
©Ruth Sharville

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