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Big Pit Halt railway station is a railway station on the Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway heritage line, adjacent to Big Pit National Coal Museum, Blaenavon, Wales. Big Pit Halt during construction. The station opened on 6 April (Good Friday) 2012, [1] however the line to Big Pit actually opened on Friday 16 September 2011. [2]
The Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway (Welsh: Rheilffordd Pont-y-pŵl a Blaenafon) is a 3.5-mile (5.6 km) volunteer-run heritage railway in South Wales, running trains between a halt platform opposite the Whistle Inn public house (famed for its collection of miners' lamps) southwards to the town of Blaenavon via a two-platform station at the site of former colliery furnace of the Big Pit ...
Big Pit Halt railway station with the museum in the background. In 1866, the Brynmawr and Blaenavon Railway opened, with access sidings to the mine workings. The line was immediately leased to the London and North Western Railway, allowing coal to be transported directly to the Midlands via the Merthyr, Tredegar and Abergavenny Railway.
Big Pit National Coal Museum: Built in 1920 for the Blaenavon Co. Ltd. Now on display in the Big Pit Mining Museum at Blaenavon. No. 1719 No. 2 Lady Nan: 0-4-0 ST: East Somerset Railway: Built in 1920. Returned to service in 2017 after boiler ticket expired in the same year. No. 1823 Henry/Harry: 0-4-0 ST: Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway: Built ...
The Brynmawr and Blaenavon Railway was a railway line in South Wales, within the historic boundaries of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire, originally built in 1866 and immediately leased to the London and North Western Railway to transport coal to the Midlands via the Heads of the Valleys line. The line was completed in the late eighteen sixties ...
The Big Pit coal mine, now managed by Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales, was worked from around 1860 until 1980. The original pithead buildings have been preserved, including the head frame, winding engine and baths. [1] The Big Pit Colliery was reopened as a museum in 1983. Visitors may take an underground tour.
Attractions in the town include the Big Pit National Coal Museum (an Anchor Point of the European Route of Industrial Heritage), Blaenavon Ironworks, [10] the Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway and Blaenavon World Heritage Centre. The town has a male voice choir, a town band, and many historical walks through the local mountains.
Statfold Barn Railway: Donated by Hampshire Narrow Gauge Railway Trust; previously at Kew Bridge Steam Museum, Amberley Museum & Heritage Centre and Purbeck Mineral and Mining Museum [9] 1891 554 0-4-0 ST: 1 ft 11 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (597 mm) Cilgwyn quarry, then Penrhyn Quarry Railway: Lilla: Ffestiniog Railway [10] 1893 589 2-4-0 ST+T: 1 ft 11 + 1 ...