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unusual facts about Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway


Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway

In May 2010 the railway was extended a distance of roughly a mile and a quarter southwards to the site of the former Blaenavon High Level station (once the London and North Western Railway's station in the town).


British Rail Class 411

It was moved in May 2008 from the Dartmoor Railway to the Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway until August 2013, immediately prior to that railway's closure pending re-organisation.

The 3 Cep unit, no. 1198, was withdrawn at the end of December 2004, and was preserved by the EMU Preservation Society on the Dartmoor Railway before moving in 2008 to the Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway and then in 2013 to the Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway.


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