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Latitude: 51.711 / 51°42'39"N
Longitude: -3.0699 / 3°4'11"W
OS Eastings: 326174
OS Northings: 201902
OS Grid: SO261019
Mapcode National: GBR J2.3JHH
Mapcode Global: VH79R.Q8Y6
Plus Code: 9C3RPW6J+92
Entry Name: Railway viaduct at Cwm Ffrwd-oer
Listing Date: 21 October 2003
Last Amended: 21 October 2003
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 81925
ID on this website: 300081925
Location: In a rural location crossing the Nant Ddu some 300m W of Cwmffrwdoer Primary School.
County: Torfaen
Town: Pontypool
Community: Pen Tranch (Pen Transh)
Community: Pen Tranch
Locality: Cwm Ffrwd-oer
Built-Up Area: Pontypool
Traditional County: Monmouthshire
Tagged with: Viaduct Railway viaduct
Disused railway viaduct on the loop that carried the 'top line' to Blaenavon from Pontnewynydd Junction. Built c1870 probably by the Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company. Just to the SE was the Branches Fork Junction where one line went W to the Cwm-ffrwdoer collieries of Plas-y-coed, Gellydeg and Tirpentwys and another went NW under the viaduct to serve the Cwm Du pits. The viaduct now carries a cycle path.
Railway viaduct, rock-faced square stone with 4 large round arches of red brick in 4 rings on massive piers with tooled leading edges. Heavy rock-faced stone string under parapet with massive rock-faced stone copings. Viaduct curves slightly.
Included as a substantial C19 railway viaduct, a notable landscape feature and part of the complex mining and railway history of the region.
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