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"Richard Brookman" <[email protected]> wrote:
> ...and McBad spake unto the tribes of Usenet, saying...
>
>
> > "Steve Taylor" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > news:[email protected]...
> >> Austin Shackles wrote:
> >>
> >>>> What, actually with track ? Like richard said, the stuff he
> >>>> mentioned is pretty interesting, given the period, it would have
> >>>> to have been for Brunel's broad gauge.
> >>>
> >>> that was the rumour. It was something that was built and sidelined
> >>> so to speak. Could well be the thing Richard is talking about, but
> >>> I don't know.
> >>>
> >>> This was something our history teacher told us, ISTR.
> >>
> >> Sounds like we should have a proper expedition to find out then. See
> >> you in the summer.
> >>
> >> Steve
> >
> > Sounds interesting. The next time I'm down there I'll ask some
> > questions. The people I am working with have had at least a couple of
> > generations of the family living in that immediate area so maybe
> > they'll know the location of any ruins / track.
> >
> > M.
>
> I can tell you what I know, that's all! Apparently, Brunel wanted to build
> a terminus for his new railway linking London with a suitable port for the
> Atlantic and on to America. His first choice was Abermawr (a tiny village
> on the West Wales coast). He got as far as building many of the buildings,
> platforms etc before changing his mind and routing the line of the railway
> to Neyland on the Milford Haven waterway. (Even that one never took off,
> but that's another story.)
>
> I haven't been there for a while, but as I remember it you park the car on a
> bend in the road and climb over a fence into a field. You walk perhaps half
> a mile across the field and then you start to enter a wooded valley. The
> valley drops down perhaps another half mile before reaching the sea with a
> small beach and a huge shingle bank. The woods in the valley are quite
> dense, but as you walk through you begin to see straight lines where there
> shouldn't be any, and odd shadows that don't belong, and if you look hard,
> there are the foundations of buildings and a couple of platforms. The last
> time I was there (7-8 years ago) we were headed for the beach with the kids,
> so I didn't explore further, but I imagine with a decent pair of boots you
> could explore all over the area and find some pretty interesting stuff.
> That's assuming it hasn't been discovered by the Heritage Industry and
> turned into an interactive Visitor Center (tm) with plastic dinosaurs and a
> Macdonalds. I doubt it. As far as I remember, there was no track anywhere.
>
> Next free weekend (ie when the S2a is through its MoT and back in service) I
> will whizz down and have another look. This thread has rekindled my
> interest. Pembrokeshire does have lots of History.
>
>
Sorry for jumping into this thread a bit late - and changin to a related
topic. Some years ago there was an article in one of the railway mags
about a similar thing in Somerset (if I remember right). When broad guage
was abandoned some of the West Of England main line was diverted rather
than converted, leaving an entire station isolated - complete with
track and everything. At the time the article was written the site was
largely intact.
Richard
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"Richard Brookman" <[email protected]> wrote:
> ...and McBad spake unto the tribes of Usenet, saying...
>
>
> > "Steve Taylor" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > news:[email protected]...
> >> Austin Shackles wrote:
> >>
> >>>> What, actually with track ? Like richard said, the stuff he
> >>>> mentioned is pretty interesting, given the period, it would have
> >>>> to have been for Brunel's broad gauge.
> >>>
> >>> that was the rumour. It was something that was built and sidelined
> >>> so to speak. Could well be the thing Richard is talking about, but
> >>> I don't know.
> >>>
> >>> This was something our history teacher told us, ISTR.
> >>
> >> Sounds like we should have a proper expedition to find out then. See
> >> you in the summer.
> >>
> >> Steve
> >
> > Sounds interesting. The next time I'm down there I'll ask some
> > questions. The people I am working with have had at least a couple of
> > generations of the family living in that immediate area so maybe
> > they'll know the location of any ruins / track.
> >
> > M.
>
> I can tell you what I know, that's all! Apparently, Brunel wanted to build
> a terminus for his new railway linking London with a suitable port for the
> Atlantic and on to America. His first choice was Abermawr (a tiny village
> on the West Wales coast). He got as far as building many of the buildings,
> platforms etc before changing his mind and routing the line of the railway
> to Neyland on the Milford Haven waterway. (Even that one never took off,
> but that's another story.)
>
> I haven't been there for a while, but as I remember it you park the car on a
> bend in the road and climb over a fence into a field. You walk perhaps half
> a mile across the field and then you start to enter a wooded valley. The
> valley drops down perhaps another half mile before reaching the sea with a
> small beach and a huge shingle bank. The woods in the valley are quite
> dense, but as you walk through you begin to see straight lines where there
> shouldn't be any, and odd shadows that don't belong, and if you look hard,
> there are the foundations of buildings and a couple of platforms. The last
> time I was there (7-8 years ago) we were headed for the beach with the kids,
> so I didn't explore further, but I imagine with a decent pair of boots you
> could explore all over the area and find some pretty interesting stuff.
> That's assuming it hasn't been discovered by the Heritage Industry and
> turned into an interactive Visitor Center (tm) with plastic dinosaurs and a
> Macdonalds. I doubt it. As far as I remember, there was no track anywhere.
>
> Next free weekend (ie when the S2a is through its MoT and back in service) I
> will whizz down and have another look. This thread has rekindled my
> interest. Pembrokeshire does have lots of History.
>
>
Sorry for jumping into this thread a bit late - and changin to a related
topic. Some years ago there was an article in one of the railway mags
about a similar thing in Somerset (if I remember right). When broad guage
was abandoned some of the West Of England main line was diverted rather
than converted, leaving an entire station isolated - complete with
track and everything. At the time the article was written the site was
largely intact.
Richard
--
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