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The world's first passenger railway, the Swansea and Mumbles Railway (SMR), had demonstrated the power of rails to carry passengers but a street tramway was not considered until after the Tramways Act 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 78) when a group of business men formed the Swansea Tramways Company. [1] Problems with raising capital and the need for ...
There was a demand for another railway line to relieve the situation. The Rhondda & Swansea Bay Railway (R&SBR) was incorporated on 10 August 1882. It established a shorter route to Swansea via the Afan Valley passing through the 1,700-foot-high (520 m) Mynydd Blaengwyfni. [2] Sydney William Yockney was employed to engineer the route.
Tidal Lagoon Swansea Bay was a proposed tidal lagoon power plant that was to be constructed in Swansea Bay off the south coast of Wales, United Kingdom.Development consent was granted by the UK government in June 2015, and in June 2018 the Welsh Government approved the plan and offered to invest £200 million; however, later that month the UK government withdrew its support on value-for-money ...
The Tower, Meridian Quay is a residential tower in Swansea, Wales. It is the tallest building in Wales. It is the tallest building in Wales. Standing at 107 m (351 ft), Meridian Quay is the only skyscraper in Wales (buildings over 100 m tall) and one of several high-rises in Swansea.
Swansea became known as Copperopolis [1] and the lower Tawe valley became a mass of industry. In the wake of the copper and coal industry followed pottery -making (another industry which requires large amounts of coal, together with clay and flint, which could be shipped in from the West Country ); the alum industry (based on pyrites found with ...
Zhang Yazhou was sitting in the passenger seat of her Tesla Model 3 when she said she heard her father’s panicked voice: The brakes don’t work! Stunned, Zhang gazed at the deflating airbag in ...
The Swansea Bay and West Wales Metro, or simply the Swansea Bay Metro (Welsh: Metro Bae Abertawe; originally proposed as the South West Wales Metro) is a proposed enhancement of railways, buses and active travel around the Swansea Bay and South West Wales (or just West Wales) areas of South Wales. [1] The project could take up to 10 years to ...
Swansea (/ ˈ s w ɒ n z i / SWON-zee; Welsh: Abertawe [abɛrˈtawɛ]) is a coastal city and the second-largest city of Wales. It forms a principal area, officially known as the City and County of Swansea (Welsh: Dinas a Sir Abertawe). [4] The city is the twenty-fifth largest in the United Kingdom.