Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway

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The Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway is a 3.5-mile (5.6 km) volunteer-run heritage railway in South Wales, running trains between a halt platform opposite the Whistle Inn public house southwards to the town of Blaenavon via a two-platform station at the site of former colliery furnace of the Big Pit National Coal Museum.

Hunslet 18 Inch 0-6-0ST Eastmoor Steelworks No. 18 'Jessie' runs round the train at Blaenavon High Level

The new building at Blaenavon Furnace Sidings railway station

Andrew Barclay 0-4-0ST 'Rosyth' at Big Pit Halt

Hunslet 18 Inch 0-6-0ST Eastmoor Steelworks No. 18 'Jessie' runs round the train at Blaenavon Furnace Sidings

Blaenavon

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Blaenavon is a town and community in Torfaen county borough, Wales, high on a hillside on the source of the Afon Lwyd. It is within the boundaries of the historic county of Monmouthshire and the preserved county of Gwent. The population is 6,055.

Blaenavon War Memorial and Workmen's Hall

The Church in Wales church of St Peter

The Church in Wales church of St Paul

The Former Municipal Offices in Lion Street