Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway
The Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway , also known as the Burry Port and Gwendreath Railway , was a railway company in South Wales .
The company was created on April 30, 1866 from the merger of the Kidwelly and Burry Port Railway and the Burry Port Company. Due to a spelling mistake in the legal text of the concession, the official name of the company is Burry Port and Gwendreath Railway . The route network comprised 34 kilometers including all sidings. The main route ran from Burry Port to Cwm Mawr .
For a long time, the company's income from freight transport was low. Passenger traffic was not allowed due to legal restrictions. The company therefore did not have sufficient liquid funds and had to be placed under bankruptcy administration twice. Only the economic upturn around the turn of the century and advice from engineer and manager Holman Fred Stephens improved the situation. Stephens also made sure that passenger traffic could be introduced on the route in 1913.
On July 1, 1922, the Great Western Railway took over the now flourishing company.
Locomotives
15 locomotives are taken over from the GWR. These are exclusively triple-coupled tank locomotives from the years 1900 to 1919. The locomotives with the numbers 1 to 15 are assigned numbers 2162–2168, 2176, 2192–2198 at the GWR.
literature
- Christopher Awdry: Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies . Stephens, Wellingborough 1990, ISBN 1-85260-049-7 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ BURRY PORT & GWENDRAETH VALLEY LIGHT RAILWAY. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 14, 2013 ; accessed on September 10, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
