Casgliadau Arlein

Front cover and article from "The Railway Magazine" entitled The Sirhowy Valley and its Railways II. 8 pages (pages 261-268) 3 black & white photographs, 1 drawing, 1 map. Content summary :- Detailed history of tramroad and railway development in the Sirhowy Valley

First locomotive built by the Neath Abbey Ironworks in 1830/31, (for the Speedwell Mining Company in the Upper Sirhowy Valley, Mon.), and was bought by Thomas Prothero on behalf of that mining syndicate. An 0-4-0 locomotive with 10 ½" x 24" cylinders for use on a 4' 2" plateway. It had vertical cylinders with bell crank drive.