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Kidwelly And Burry Port Railway
All photographs of this railway in date order.
![A group of three 03s make their way south from from Cwm Mawr with a loaded coal train in 1982.<br><br>[Andrew Saunders //]](/images/54000/54562.jpg "Hirwaun Level Crossing")
![03.151 and 03.152 (coupled in multiple via a cat's cradle of cables - there were a lot of separate cables, perhaps 15 or more, strung loosely between the backs of the cabs) plus a third 03 (not in multiple) heading a coal train down the BPGV line from Cwm Mawr.<br><br>
The locomotives are seen approaching the level crossing at Cwm Mawr, just south of the terminus.<br><br>
These were taken in 1982 the year before the BPGV line was re-routed to avoid flooding and permit the use of 08s instead of 03s.<br><br>[Andrew Saunders //1982]](/images/54000/54535.jpg "Tirclau Level Crossing")
![A loaded coal train snakes south through Pontyberem under the Heol Y Pentre road bridge in 1982.<br><br>[Andrew Saunders //1982]](/images/54000/54566.jpg "Pontyberem")
![Three 03s come south from Cwm Mawr through Pontyberem, passing under the B4306.<br><br>[Andrew Saunders //1982]](/images/54000/54598.jpg "Pontyberem")
![Three 03s heading for Burry Port on the Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway. Thought to be near Pontyates.<br><br>[Andrew Saunders //1982]](/images/54000/54896.jpg "Pontyates")
![Note the writing on brake van! The brake van is on the rear of a loaded train hauled by three 03s.<br><br>[Andrew Saunders //1982]](/images/55000/55052.jpg "Pontyates")
![Hopper and container wagons ready for loading with domestic coal for Scotland at Coed Bach washery on the Kidwelly-Cwmmawr branch in 1987. North of the border, most conventional coal traffic in flat-bottom mineral wagons had ceased in 1983, but the new order - including, eventually, coal container railheads at Gartcosh, Aberdeen and Inverness - was significantly delayed by the 1984-85 miners' strike, which also led to a flood of imports from which rail never really recovered.<br><br>[David Spaven //1987]](/images/28000/28307.jpg "Coed Bach Washery")
![The former terminus (later a coal loading pad) at Cwmmawr looking towards Kidwelly in 2002.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford /09/2002]](/images/38000/38081.jpg "Cwmmawr")
![Cwm Mawr in September of 2002 looking north to the terminus from the level crossing. The line closed to goods in 1996. There are plans to preserve the line and much of the track remains between Kidwelly and Cwm Mawr, albeit very overgrown. Some level crossings have been rebuilt with the track either buried under tarmac or lifted. The sign seen in Andrew Saunders' photograph still exists, just off to the right of this view.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford /09/2002]](/images/54000/54536.jpg "Tirclau Level Crossing")
![Looking east towards Kidwelly on 12 April along the relatively weed free moribund Gwendraeth Valley line seen from the A484 Kidwelly bypass. [See image 38440] <br><br>[David Pesterfield 12/04/2012]](/images/38000/38432.jpg "Kidwelly")
![Looking west from the A484 Kidwelly bypass along the Gwendraeth Valley line before it disappears beneath undergrowth in the far distance. [See image 38432]<br><br>[David Pesterfield 12/04/2012]](/images/38000/38440.jpg "Kidwelly")
![The mothballed Gwendraeth Valley line turning north from the end of the exchange sidings to the east of Kidwelly Station in April 2012. <br><br>[David Pesterfield 19/04/2012]](/images/38000/38525.jpg "Kidwelly")
![Arriva 175102 leans into the curve after passing Kidwelly level crossing heading east towards Swansea with the 13.01 service from Carmarthan to Manchester Piccadilly in October 2012. The overgrown and rusting Gwendraeth Valley line exchange sidings are on the left, with part of the head shunt stop block just visible.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 31/10/2012]](/images/49000/49810.jpg "Kidwelly")
