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Brecon And Merthyr Railway
All photographs of this railway in date order.
![Torpantau was the highest point of the Brecon & Merthyr and at the entrance to the highest tunnel in the UK (I think). This picture was taken in 1964 after closure and looks north. [See image 25884.]<br><br>[John Thorn //1964]](/images/25000/25885.jpg "Torpantau")
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This area is short of names so probably best to call it Torpantau - but Pent - y - Rhiw station would have been central to the picture. The view looking east from almost on top of the Torpantau tunnel. The line running across the middle of the picture is the 'seven mile bank' of the Brecon and Merthyr Railway. The paler line that is close on the left but rises more to the right is the Bryn Oer Tramroad. The Talybont reservoir is just out of sight to the left.<br><br>[John Thorn /07/1964]](/images/58000/58200.jpg "Torpantau")
![Across the road from the former Brecon and Merthyr Torpantau station, the Brecon Mountain Railway have built a new terminus (you can see the old trackbed climbing on the right). I took this picture in 2004 but there are no services yet! [See image 25885.]<br><br>[John Thorn //2004]](/images/25000/25884.jpg "Torpantau")
![The station at Talybont-on-Usk closed in 1962, along with the Brecon and Merthyr line, but it has been extended and converted into a residential education centre. It lies some way outside the village itself at Map Ref SO 119231.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 19/09/2009]](/images/25000/25537.jpg "Talybont-on-Usk")
![A Brecon Mountain Railway service, headed by an American outline tender locomotive, heads north from Pontsticill alongside Torpantau reservoir. The narrow gauge BMR follows the track bed of the old standard gauge Brecon and Merthyr line, which closed in 1962.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 19/09/2009]](/images/25000/25655.jpg "Pontsticill")
![The business end of 4-6-2 locomotive No 2, seen from the caboose in August 2014. [see image 48358]. This engine was built in Philadelphia in 1930, and exported to a South African cement works, where it suffered a serious accident in 1974. It was rebuilt in the BMR workshops at Pant, and went back into service in 1997 after a four year rebuild.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 24/08/2014]](/images/48000/48644.jpg "Pontiscill")
![With a name which must be pronounced carefully and a challenging climate, the residents of this village had quite enough to cope with before their station was closed to passengers in 1962 and goods in 1964. There was a goods yard to the right of the platform, and a station building where the modern house now stands. A pub was located across the road, and remains in business. [Ref query 30 August 2017] <br><br>[Ken Strachan 19/08/2017]](/images/60000/60595.jpg "Fochriw")
