GARW VALLEY RAILWAY

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Please help us get trains running again in the Garw Valley.

 

Repeated for a second year

 

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Pamela 

Hunslet Austerity 0-6-0ST # 68070

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Before the Engine Shed

 

 

 

Coming through Pontyrhyl full of coal

 

Class 37/7 37895 

Removing coal slag for Aberthaw Power Station

 

 

The beginning of a new platform

Work is under way on the new Pontycymer platform.

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DMU

Garw Valley Railway's Class 108 Diesel Multiple Unit

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Leaving Pontycymer

 

 

Llangeinor - crossing Bettws Road

 

 

 

Check out our Special Membership offer

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A Board Announcement..... In view of the ongoing discussions we would like to state that we recognise and support the Community Route as a integral part of the Garw Valley, and are prepared to work in partnership with all stakeholders so as to ensure it's future.

 

 We have now signed up with "GIVE as you LIVE"

It's a website that once you have signed up, anything you buy online from the likes of Amazon, M&S or ebay plus many more, a percentage of the total spent is donated to the railway at no cost to yourself. So please consider signing up. Christmas is coming and we are sure you will do a little online shopping, so please sign up. You do have to start your shopping from the Give as you Live page. 

Use this link to get started Give as you Live for the Garw Railway 

Grab yourself a bit of the GVR

We have for sale pin badges of the Garw Valley Railway.

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Check out our NEW Railway BROCHURE.

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Welcome

The Garw Valley Railway is based on the former Pontycymer to Tondu branch to the north of Bridgend which was curtailed to Pontycymer after 1997. Most of the track remains “in situ”, with two short lengths having been lifted. The line is single track, with potential station sites at Pontycymer, Pontyrhyl, Llangeinor and Brynmenyn. The closest national rail station is Tondu on the Maesteg Branch. Pontycymer is a 15 minute drive from the M4 at junction 36.

The Company hopes to restore passenger train services between Pontycymer and Brynmenyn within the next 10 years. The original proposal to extend in to the Brynmenyn Industrial Estate, and develop a National Railway Centre, had to be abandoned when the river bridge was demolished.

The Bridgend Valleys Railway Company Ltd. trading as Garw Valley Railway’s objective is to advance public education by the restoration, preservation and display of railway locomotives, carriages, wagons and other artefacts of historical interest and buildings connected therewith, in particular but not exclusively those connected with the Garw Valley. And the preservation of books drawings, records, documents, visual and sound recordings, cinematography films and photographs relating to such artefacts and vehicles, their history and development. It is further intended to create a Heritage Centre at Pontycymer in combination with the Garw Heritage Society. This will permit the collection of archives, photographs and other historic material to be available to the public and be preserved for future generations.

Mission Statement
The aim of the Garw Valley Railway is “to re-create for present and future generations a typical South Wales Valleys branch line by providing a working museum atmosphere based principally upon the traditions of the Great Western Railway just prior to nationalisation”. The company also wishes to contribute to the conservation of industrial heritage of the South Wales Valleys, to protect and improve the environment and to promote tourism as a means of economic development and regeneration.