Burry Port & Gwendraeth Valley Railway 0-6-0ST No. 2 'Pontyberem'
Bream, Gloucestershire, UK 		Location: Flour Mill Works
Status: Restoration
Posted: Mar 18, 2025 @ 14:03:16 by Russell Newman
The former Burry Port & Gwendraeth Valley Railway 1900 Avonside built 0-6-0ST No. 2 "Pontyberem", is in fact owned by the newly formed Gwendraeth Valley Railway, a new heritage railway set up at Kidwelly in South Wales to restore and operate trains on the mothballed nine-mile former Burry Port & Gwendraeth Valley Railway. Which work is underway on a new station site at Kidwelly and restoration of the line to make fit for trains to run again along the line which was last used in 1996. The restoration of "Pontyberem" continues on at the Flour Mill Works at Bream still.
Posted: Jun 24, 2024 @ 11:06:25 by Russell Newman
The former Burry Port & Gwendraeth Valley Railway 1900 Avonside built 0-6-0ST No. 2 "Pontyberem", has since left the Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway and is now located at the Flour Mill Works at Bream in Gloucestershire, where its restoration is slowly continuing.
Posted: Apr 1, 2008 @ 08:04:15 by Steve Frost
This loco is yet another example of a pre-grouping railway's locomotive fleet that survived because of industrial service. The original owners sold it to Mountain Ash Colliery as long ago as 1914 (see previous note). Now it's back in South Wales at the Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway. It's in good company there as Barclay 0-6-0ST 'Llantarnam Abbey' and Robert Stephensons and Hawthornes 0-6-0ST No 8 also worked at Mountain Ash Colliery. The aim is to restore it to working order for eventual use on the embryonic Gwendraeth Valley Railway. If that comes to pass then it will truly have returned home. Let's keep our fingers crossed!
Posted: Feb 16, 2007 @ 17:02:42 by Kamil
Burry Port & Gwendraeth Valley Railway (1900-14) > Mountain Ash and Penrikyber (1914-69) > Didcot Railway Centre 2 "Pontyberem" (1970)