Swansea Vale Railway, Swansea - April 08

This is a fantastic site full of old and new trains and related kit.

Swansea council has been trying for ages to get it shut down and has now succeeded.

It was close to me so my brother and I decided to have a look.

There are CCTV cameras in the area, notably, one on the main wall of the workshop building, a really small almost webcam like one and a few normal industrial types on the roof of Morris Bros.

Anyway, onto the photos.

Under carriage near the entrance to the tracks from the north side.


Platform north end.


Gritter carriage.


Track shot.


hood_mad on the way up the tracks.


Coming up to the site.


View from one of the signal towers


Brick tower??


Discreet warnings


Main workshop, note camera top left of door.


There were loads of carrieages.




Inside the blue carriage in the first photo.








Engine.


Inside locked engine room - shot through holes in the door.




Happy & Sad.


Crane.


Open carriage like in the movies.


Burnt out carriage.


One of the fires burnt the alloy doors.






Signal box.


Inside












Drivers compartment of one of the newer engines.


Largish spider.


Cheers for looking.

J.

Nice pics, looks like a really interesting place to wander around. Why'd the council want to shut it down

Trinpaul said:

Nice pics, looks like a really interesting place to wander around. Why'd the council want to shut it down

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I believe they want to extend housing over the site and are just looking for an excuse to get rid of them.

It would be criminal to let the council get away with it. Shed loads of history there.

Wow, such wonderful things! Love the stuff left in the carriage...the lantern and model engine are delightful. Great signal box, too.
Another great find, evo.

Good to see it is still accessible. Thought it got shut down due to vandalism tho