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Designed by W. Sutcliffe Marsh and promoted by John Jones Jenkins of the Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway, the pier opened on 10 May 1898 at a cost of £10,000.It was the western terminus for the world's first passenger carrying horsecar railway, the Swansea and Mumbles Railway; and a major terminal for the White Funnel paddle steamers of P & A Campbell, unloading tourists from routes along the ...
Mumbles Pier was opened in 1898 at the terminus of the Swansea and Mumbles Railway, which was the world's first horse-drawn public passenger train service.It opened 2 Mar 1807 and used horse power to 1877, then steam power to 1929, when it switched to double deck overhead electric tram power, lasting till the line closed in Jan 1960.
The area is centred on a seafront building on Mumbles Road, which once served as a station and power station for the Swansea and Mumbles Railway; today, it houses a cafe called "The Junction". The land between Mumbles Road and Blackpill beach is used as Blackpill Lido, a family and children's play area which is popular in summer.
Swansea and Mumbles Railway Terminus This page was last edited on 18 December 2024, at 04:31 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
The world's first passenger railway, the Swansea and Mumbles Railway (SMR), had demonstrated the power of rails to carry passengers but a street tramway was not considered until after the Tramways Act 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 78) when a group of business men formed the Swansea Tramways Company. [1]
In 2014 a new Tamar class lifeboat entered service at The Mumbles, temporarily based at Swansea Marina while a new, larger, boathouse and slipway were constructed on the end of Mumbles pier. In 2015 and 2016, Mumbles was the busiest station in Wales, launching 83 times, and was the busiest station in 2022, with 126 launches. [12]
Mumbles Lighthouse (Grade II listed) Palace Theatre; Plantasia; Patti Pavilion; Sea View Community Primary School; Swansea Central Library (Grade II listed) Swansea Central police station (Grade II listed) Swansea Market; Swansea observatory; Tabernacle Chapel, Morriston (Grade I listed) Vetch Field; Whiteford Lighthouse (Grade II listed ...
The cuisine of Swansea (Welsh: Abertawe) is based on the city's long history and the influence of the surrounding regions of Gower, Carmarthenshire, and Glamorgan, Wales.. The city has a long maritime, industrial, and academic tradition, and people from many different parts of the world have lived, studied, and worked in the ci