| From Swansea’s Victoria Station to Pontardulais on 09:27 - Apr 29 with 4062 views | Best_loser |
What a hive of activity clyne woods was
The train, numerous mines , quarry, brickworks, a racecourse
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| From Swansea’s Victoria Station to Pontardulais on 09:39 - Apr 29 with 4042 views | Giff |
Enjoyed that trip. | | | |
| From Swansea’s Victoria Station to Pontardulais on 10:14 - Apr 29 with 4007 views | airedale |
Fantastic! Really enjoyed that. Coming up from Mumbles Road up to Gowerton is now a cycle route we use quite often. | | | |
| From Swansea’s Victoria Station to Pontardulais on 10:27 - Apr 29 with 3992 views | jacktar |
Fantastic trip.
My home town of Gowerton has changed a bit!
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| From Swansea’s Victoria Station to Pontardulais on 10:36 - Apr 29 with 3982 views | chad |
Fantastic, thank you | | | |
| From Swansea’s Victoria Station to Pontardulais on 10:44 - Apr 29 with 3972 views | SoberBaker |
Superb!
Can't wait to show my old man this - Cheers! | |
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| From Swansea’s Victoria Station to Pontardulais on 11:05 - Apr 29 with 3948 views | swan65split |
Thank you.gosh I remember that silver double decker bus. | | | |
| From Swansea’s Victoria Station to Pontardulais on 12:09 - Apr 29 with 3910 views | 3swan |
Forgot about the swings on the beach by the slip bridge. | | | |
| From Swansea’s Victoria Station to Pontardulais on 14:13 - Apr 29 with 3815 views | theloneranger |
That was an experiment by SWT to have the buses delivered unpainted.
They looked really nice for a while, but the aluminium didn't like the sea air and they soon tarnished and started to look scruffy, and they were eventually painted red. | |
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| From Swansea’s Victoria Station to Pontardulais on 14:16 - Apr 29 with 3812 views | Highjack |
Where was Victoria station situated? Was it where the leisure centre is now or further down towards Fabian way? | |
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| From Swansea’s Victoria Station to Pontardulais on 14:25 - Apr 29 with 3798 views | jacktar |
It was on the land that now houses the LC2 and stretched towards the Civic Centre. Opposite and just the town side of Tescos, were the sheds that held the Mumbles train terminus.
Victoria station became Fyffes Bananas depot after it closed as a commercial station. | |
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| From Swansea’s Victoria Station to Pontardulais on 14:29 - Apr 29 with 3789 views | Highjack |
Would a lot of fans visiting the vetch have arrived there rather than the High Street? | |
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| From Swansea’s Victoria Station to Pontardulais on 14:44 - Apr 29 with 3776 views | jacktar |
I would imagine so, particularly from outlying areas like Gowerton, Gorseinon and Pontarddulais.
I don't know how well the trains were used back then, probably not enough, leading to the demise of many lines under Beeching. | |
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| From Swansea’s Victoria Station to Pontardulais on 14:58 - Apr 29 with 3755 views | theloneranger |
The Victoria Club was there as well. A lot of the railway workers and some of the coal merchants drank there - and me.  | |
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| From Swansea’s Victoria Station to Pontardulais on 15:38 - Apr 29 with 3714 views | Highjack |
The reason I asked is because I would have thought the line and station that close to the dock lands would have been used more for carrying cargo than passengers. But it would have been far more handy for the vetch than the high street. | |
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| From Swansea’s Victoria Station to Pontardulais on 16:09 - Apr 29 with 3694 views | Pete3001 |
Excellent. Thanks.
I remember the silver bus as well! | | | |
| From Swansea’s Victoria Station to Pontardulais on 16:46 - Apr 29 with 3659 views | Joe_bradshaw |
Amazing film.
We went on a guided walk up Clyne Valley a few years ago as part of the now defunct Gower Walking Festival. Some evidence of the railway tracks and industrial activity is still there if you know where to look for it. | |
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| From Swansea’s Victoria Station to Pontardulais on 20:35 - Apr 29 with 3520 views | 1462jack |
Rutland street is mentioned in the video , during the Second World War Rocky Marciano used catch the train from mumbles onto Rutland street to box in Jimmy wilds boxing gym , have a look at this
http://www.john-summers.net/marciano.html [Post edited 29 Apr 2020 20:48]
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| From Swansea’s Victoria Station to Pontardulais on 20:38 - Apr 29 with 3509 views | Best_loser |
Not sure if they have been made safe now but there used to be quite a few uncapped mineshafts there if you went off the main paths | | | |
| From Swansea’s Victoria Station to Pontardulais on 20:58 - Apr 29 with 3466 views | jack2jack |
Terrific footage, fair play, shows how much the city and surrounding areas have changed over the years,great to look back on these images.👠| | | |
| From Swansea’s Victoria Station to Pontardulais on 23:37 - Apr 29 with 3376 views | howenjack |
It would be great if the powers that be built a statue of Marciano and put it on the car park at Mumbles. It would be fitting as the centenary of his birth is coming up soon and a tribute to all the GI's who were stationed here .
It would help generate interest in Mumbles as well . The Mumbles train should be brought back too. | | | |
| From Swansea’s Victoria Station to Pontardulais on 23:50 - Apr 29 with 3366 views | theloneranger |
"One night Rocco got himself in a brawl in Swansea’s Wind Street" ...
The Adelphi. | |
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