Summary
THE immortal Isambard Kingdom Brunel dismissed it as 'a crooked little line down in Wales'. But from that crooked little line between Cardiff and Merthyr Tydfil would grow a vast and intricate network linking village to town, hamlet to halt as tunnels were blasted through mountains, bridges sent soaring across rivers, viaducts flung over fields.
In time, the coal would roll down from the Rhondda, kids would bowl boisterously into Barry Island and Porthcawl, the ancient course of the River Taff would be changed and one of the marvels of the age, the Severn Tunnel, would astonish the world.See the full content of this document
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The Rise and Fall of 'Crooked Little Line'
All began on an October day in 1840 when the ironmasters of Merthyr climbed aboard the primitive train making the first official trip from their furnace-filled powerhouse of a town to Abercynon.
The dawn, then, of th...See the full content of this document
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