The Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway was a mineral railway company that constructed a railway line in Carmarthenshire, Wales, by conversion of a canal, to connect collieries and limestone pits
0-6-0ST GWR 2192 Ashburnham (ex-BP&GVR No. 1 Ashburnham) at Severn Tunnel Junction in 1951
0-6-0T GWR 2198 (ex-BP&GVR No. 10) at Llanelly shed in 1958
Kidwelly and Llanelly Canal
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The Kidwelly and Llanelly Canal was a canal and tramroad system in Carmarthenshire, Wales, built to carry anthracite coal to the coast for onward transportation by coastal ships. It began life as Kyme
Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway
…it was an important plateway connecting coal pits near Cross Hands and ironworks to the harbour (which it developed itself) at Llanelly. In 1812 the Kidwelly and Llanelly Canal and Tramroad Company was authorised by the Kidwelly and Llanelly Canal and Tramroad Company Act 1812 (52 Geo. 3. c. clxxiii). As well as the main line of the canal, there…
Kymer's dock at Kidwelly, reconstructed in 1990.
The bridge which carried Stanley's Tramway over the canal near Pembrey old harbour