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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.
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.
There are numerous other original features on site, including the pit head baths, steam winding house, boiler house and coal screening plant. The site maintains an operating paddy train connecting the main Caphouse hub to the Hope Pit area of the site, where a natural Water Treatment facility with reed beds and bird hides is operated in ...
Blaenavon Ironworks is a former industrial site which is now a museum in Blaenavon, Wales.The ironworks was of crucial importance in the development of the ability to use cheap, low quality, high sulphur iron ores worldwide.
Visitors can experience the life of the coal miners on a guided tour through one of the mine shafts of the Lewis Merthyr colliery. Tours are led by former colliery workers. Rhondda Heritage Park is an Anchor Point of ERIH, The European Route of Industrial Heritage.
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