With the high pressure on 4th November and consequent lovely sunshine and splendid lighting conditions, I decided to capitalise on the moment and recapture the wonderful autumn colours in the Taff Bargoed Valley again, near the small village of Bedlinog in South Wales. The Taff Bargoed Valley provides outstanding photgraphic opportunities between Bedlinog and Cwmbargoed where the line climbs 200 metres in the last four miles from Bedlinog so I took quite a few shots and have posted four of them on Flickr.
This is the first image of 66078 departing Cwmbargoed with 21 loaded coal hoppers destined for Aberthaw Power Station on the 6C93 service. The Cwmbargoed plant, which is a washing, crushing and blending coal facility, can be seen to right of the train. The coal is mined by open pit from the nearby Ffos-y-Fran mine.
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