3440 'City of Truro' visits Radyr (TVR 150) - 21st June 1991 скачать в хорошем качестве

3440 'City of Truro' visits Radyr (TVR 150) - 21st June 1991

The Taff Vale Railway (TVR) celebrated 150 years in 1991. To commemorate this a number of events were organised. Cathays Depot, Cardiff held an Open Day in June. A number of locomotives were invited to attend including 3440 ‘City of Truro’; ex Radyr engine GWR 9400 Class No.9466 & TVR No.28. Friday 21st June 1991 GWR 3700 Class No.3440 ‘City of Truro’ was allowed to steam with support coach from Cathays to Radyr. It is seen arriving at Radyr Station & departing for Radyr Yard in the rain! Radyr Yard is now private housing. 3440 was hauled by 08660 Diesel Shunter on its return to Cathays Depot & filmed passing through Llandaff Station. Finally, 3440 is seen at Cathays Depot being positioned in the yard ready for the ‘TVR 150’ Open Day the following day. The quality of the video isn’t wonderful. A number of shots were taken handheld as opposed to using my tripod. Background to TVR 1840–1921 : The Taff Vale Railway (TVR) was a standard gauge railway in South Wales, built by the Taff Vale Railway Company to serve the iron and coal industries around Merthyr Tydfil and to connect them with docks in Cardiff. It was opened in stages in 1840 and 1841. In the railway's first years, the coal mining industries expanded considerably and branches were soon opened in the Rhondda valleys and the Cynon Valley. The conveyance of coal for export and for transport away from South Wales began to dominate and the docks in Cardiff and the approach railway became extremely congested. Alternatives were sought and competing railway companies were encouraged to enter the trade. In the following decades further branch lines were built and the TVR used "motor cars" (steam railway passenger coaches) from 1903 to encourage local passenger travel. From 1922 the TVR was a constituent of the new Great Western Railway (GWR) at the grouping of the railways, imposing its own character on the larger organisation. The decline in the coal and iron industries took its toll on the mainstay of the network, but passenger trains still operate on most of the main line sections.