Great Britain Swansea Vale Railway, Swansea - 24/04/08 - REPORT.

[evo_mad]

This is a fantastic site full of old and new trains and related kit.

Swansea council has been trying for ages to get it shut down and has now succeeded.

It was close to me so hood_mad and I decided to have a look.

There are CCTV cameras in the area, notably, one on the main wall of the workshop building, a really small almost webcam like one and a few normal industrial types on the roof of Morris Bros.

Anyway, onto the photos.

Under carriage near the entrance to the tracks from the north side.

Platform north end.

Gritter carriage.

Track shot.

hood_mad on the way up the tracks.

Coming up to the site.

View from one of the signal towers

Brick tower??

Discreet warnings

Main workshop, note camera top left of door.

There were loads of carrieages.

Inside the blue carriage in the first photo.

Engine.

Inside locked engine room - shot through holes in the door.

Happy & Sad.

Crane.

Open carriage like in the movies.

Burnt out carriage.

One of the fires burnt the alloy doors.

Signal box.

Inside

Drivers compartment of one of the newer engines.

Largish spider.

Cheers for looking.

J.

 

[SuZyQue]

Fantastic stuff and pics, I would luv looking around there. Those old engines are class, there is one there that reminds me of Thomas the tank engine, or is it just me with a vivid imagination. Well done brilliant.

 

[Ryda]

ahh reli good pics mate, seems like a nice explore!

 

[valleys]

Yeah nice pics, but where's the spider I dont see it?

 

[Obscurity]

haden't seen this report before now. Nice work guys. Defo looks like a good mooch and nature appears to have claimed the reminants. Nice one