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The A473 is a main road linking Pontypridd with Bridgend in Wales.. The route begins in Upper Boat just south of Pontypridd, at the junction with the A470 and A4054 roads.It crosses the bridge in an easterly direction and continues along the road until it reaches the hill known locally as Power Station hill until it reaches a roundabout near the village of Tonteg after which it heads in a ...
The Pontypridd, Caerphilly and Newport Railway was built to bring the coal output of the Aberdare and Rhondda valleys directly to Alexandra Docks at Newport. It was a little over 5 miles (8 km) in length, running from Pontypridd to a junction near Caerphilly ; from there to Newport existing allied railways conveyed the mineral trains.
The through working from Pontypridd to Cowbridge could not, for the time being, continue. [3] [page needed] The change of working did nothing to improve the physical state of the Cowbridge Railway, and its financial situation worsened. In desperation, in 1875 the Company was obliged to ask the Taff Vale Railway to take it over, on the TVR's terms.
The first section of the line, as far as Pontypridd, is historically part of the Taff Vale Railway, from Cardiff to Merthyr Tydfil. At Pontypridd the Rhondda branch diverges and follows the course of the Rhondda Valley. It was single-tracked beyond Porth in the early 1980s, just prior to the commencement of the revival of the Valley Lines network.
The Barry branch starts at Cardiff West and runs to Barry Island with a single line branch from Cogan Junction to Penarth.In June 1964, the Vale of Glamorgan line between Barry and Bridgend was closed to passengers by the Beeching Axe, as set out in the report 'The Reshaping of Britain's Railways', but after 41 years, in June 2005, it was reopened to passengers with two new stations at ...
Pontypridd Graig railway station was a railway station located in the South Wales valleys town of Pontypridd, on the Barry Railway. Although the line was opened for mineral traffic on 18 July 1889 to take coal from Rhondda to the Docks, the passenger service did not start until 16 March 1896 after much lobbying from local residents along the line.
Pontypridd was home to the eccentric Dr William Price who performed the first modern cremation in the United Kingdom. Pontypridd hosted the National Eisteddfod in 1893 and also hosted the 2024 Eisteddfod. Côr Meibion Pontypridd (Pontypridd Male Voice Choir) [21] Pontypridd holds the Welsh Poetry Competition, the biggest of its kind in Wales. [22]
Mid Glamorgan (Welsh: Morgannwg Ganol) is a preserved county of Wales.From 1974 until 1996 it was also an administrative county with a county council. Mid Glamorgan was formed in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972.