With the high pressure on 4th November and consequent sunshine and splendid lighting conditions, I decided to capitalise on the moment and recapture the wonderful warm 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 third image of 66078 working the Cwmbargoed to Aberthaw 6C93 service. The train has 21 loaded coal hoppers and is seen here in brilliant sunshine passing through the small village of Bedlinog in the Taff Bargoed Valley, 10km south-east of Merthyr Tydifil. The train will continue south towards Ystrad Mynach, where it will join the Rhymney line for the onward journey to Aberthaw Power Station.
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