Re: Photos of South Wales in the 1970's


"Andy Kirkham" <a.kirkham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1143798092.820005.319140@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have added to my Fotopic site http://andy-kirkham.fotopic.net/ a fair
number of picture taken in South Wales in 1973-5. The main collection
concerns the Taff Bargoed Joint line (to Cwmbargoed and Dowlais Cae
Harris), which is to me one of the most fascinating railways I've ever
visited.

Andy

I'd forgotten how desolate the upper reaches of the Valleys could be. It
took me a while to recognise the traffic in those wagons- retired moulds
being returned from the various steelworks. Were you in the brake van to get
those shots along the train?. I don't remember BSC Landore, the sister-plant
of Dowlais, where both my dad and I worked, getting so many of the moulds
back- I think we used mainly 'fresh' scrap from Bachelor Robinson's
detinning plant at Llanelli or from the various scrap works around the
Swansea area. Strange to think that ingot moulds are hardly used these days,
having been superseded by Continuous Casting, and that the importance of the
steelworks in South Wales area is so reduced.
Brian


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