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Blaenavon Industrial Landscape

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	blaenavon big pit 09 jpg[425×293] The landscape around Blaenavon is blighted by industrial tips although recent schemes have helped soften the lines and grass over the black coal waste Today the Big Pit aka The National Mining Museum of Wales is one of only two remaining mines where visitors can journey to the underground workings below A caged lift takes you some some Publishing origin
	blaenavon2 jpg[160×160] Blaenavon Industrial Landscape Moulded by the coal and iron industries Blaenavon is testimony to the importance of South Wales during the Industrial Revolution of the 19th Century Many of the original furnaces foundry Publishing origin
	blaenavon big pit 03 jpg[425×288] through a bleak windswept landscape trains trundle up a short steep section of line from a platform by the former colliery furnace site to a halt opposite the Whistle Stop public house The railway started operating in 1983 and has plans to extend the line a mile and a quarter further southwards from Furnace Sidings to Blaenavon High Level Publishing origin
	blaenavon big pit 01 jpg[425×296] with the creation of the Big Pit mining museum although recent attempts to turn it into Wales s second book town the first being Hay on Wye haven t met with a great deal of success The landscape around Blaenavon is blighted by industrial tips although recent schemes have helped soften the lines and grass over the black coal waste Publishing origin
	blaenavon big pit 02 jpg[425×288] A caged lift takes you some some 300 ft 90 m underground with wisecracking ex miners taking you on a tour of the workings The Pontypool Blaenavon Railway a volunteer run preserved railway is located close to the Big Pit The highest standard gauge railway in Wales and running through a bleak windswept Publishing origin
	blaenavon big pit 05 jpg[425×307] The rather understated station at Blaenavon Industrial locomotives with Big Pit behind Publishing origin
	blaenavon big pit 06 jpg[425×301] Looking over the town of Blaenavon Publishing origin
	blaenavon big pit 04 jpg[425×303] The railway started operating in 1983 and has plans to extend the line a mile and a quarter further southwards from Furnace Sidings to Blaenavon High Level The rather understated station at Blaenavon Publishing origin
	blaenavon big pit 07 jpg[425×296] Looking over the town of Blaenavon The tour of the works is fantastic Seeing the before and after photos of a community absolutely decimated by the evil Margaret Thatcher it s hard not to leave just a little big angry and Publishing origin
	blaenavon big pit 08 jpg[425×311] Seeing the before and after photos of a community absolutely decimated by the evil Margaret Thatcher it s hard not to leave just a little big angry and downhearted too Some grim looking underground machinery I can t imagine how dreadful the operator s job must have been Publishing origin

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