Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway
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The Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway was a British railway company based in Herefordshire in England and Monmouthshire in Wales .
history
In the mid-1840s, the plan to build a rail link between Worcester and Merthyr Tydfil was developed under the name "Welsh Midland Railway" . This idea was not implemented, but the plan to build a railway line between Newport and Hereford developed from it .
On August 3, 1846, the Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway was founded. The company acquired the horse-drawn railways Hereford Railway , Llanvihangel Railway and Grosmont Railway operated between Hereford and Abergavenny in order to build the new railway line on the existing track bed. The planning and construction management was carried out by Charles Liddell . The financial crisis of 1847 to 1851 delayed construction work. The attempt by the London and North Western Railway to acquire the company was rejected by Parliament. The first train reached Hereford on December 6, 1853. The scheduled train service between Hereford and Pontypool was opened in January 1854. In Pontypool there was a transition to the railway line of the Monmouthshire Railway and Canal to Newport.
On January 11, 1858, the approved on July 9, 1847 railway line Coedygric North Junction - Quakers' Yard (Taff Valley Extension) was opened to Merthyr Tydfil with a connection to the Taff Valley Railway . In the course of this topographically difficult railway line, the construction of the two large bridges Crumlin Viaduct and Hengoed Viaduct was necessary.
In 1860 the poor financial company merged with the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway and the Worcester and Hereford Railway to form the West Midland Railway .
literature
- Christopher Awdry: Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies . Patrick Stephens Limited, Wellingborough 1990, ISBN 1-85260-049-7 .