The Quakers Yard and Merthyr Railway in South Wales was owned jointly by the

Great Western Railway The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament on 31 August 1835 and ran ...

and the

Rhymney Railway The Rhymney Railway was a railway company in South Wales, founded to transport minerals and materials to and from collieries and ironworks in the Rhymney Valley of South Wales, and to docks in Cardiff. It opened a main line in 1858, and a limite ...

History

Route

Dowlais, Dowlais Top, Merthyr & Morlais RJD 63

At its southern end, the line connected to the

Vale of Neath The Vale of Neath (or Neath Valley, Welsh: ''Cwm Nedd''), one of the South Wales Valleys, encompasses the upper reaches of the River Neath in southwest Wales. In addition to the River Neath, it is traversed by the Neath Canal and the A465 dual ...

line of the

(GWR) at Joint Line Junction, just west of

Quakers Yard High Level railway station , symbol_location = gb , symbol = rail , image = Quakers Yard railway station CCTV camera (geograph 4818394).jpg , caption = Quakers Yard railway station in 2016 , borough = Quakers Yar ...

. The line ran up the Vale of Merthyr, and at the northern end it connected to the Merthyr branch of the Vale of Neath line at Cyfarthfa Junction.

Ownership and operation

The line was jointly owned and operated by the GWR and the

; it opened in 1886.

Closure

Passenger trains over the line ran between and Cardiff. The services ended in 1951.

Notes

References

* * Pre-grouping British railway companies Great Western Railway constituents Railway lines in Wales Railway lines opened in 1886 Standard gauge railways in Wales {{UK-rail-transport-stub