Part of the West Wales Railways series, this book starts at
Clarbeston Road, covers the oil-rich town of Milford Haven, where
oil refineries were opened mostly in the 1960s in association with
the deep-water port, to accommodate super tankers from the Middle
East, though the development of other products and pipelines in the
oil world has seen the number of oil terminals there currently
reduced to one at Robeston. Neyland was the original West Wales
terminus of the GWR, after plans to develop Fishguard were delayed
until 1906, and saw several through Passenger and Parcels trains to
Paddington until 1963, when through passenger trains between
Paddington and West Wales were terminated at Swansea with a DMU
service beyond. The Neyland branch from Johnston was closed under
the Beeching cuts of 1964, involving the closure of the important
Motive Power Depot whose allocation of County Class engines is well
illustrated, though the effect of this was largely nullified by the
arrival of the diesel age.
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