Coal trains are rapidly becoming a phenomenon of the past in UK so perhaps it’s fitting that South Wales with its history of coal mining is one of the few places left where they still run on a regular basis. With the last of the evening’s sun catching Castle Coch, 66551 heads an MGR coal train destined for Aberthaw power station from Tower Colliery (6C47). Having just passed through Taffs Well, the train heads south along the Taff valley cut through Carboniferous limestone. Taffs Well was an important railway junction during the coal mining era when coal was exported from Cardiff and Penarth. It also has the distinction of being the only well in Wales associated with a thermal spring, the warm water thought to be associated with a fault in the limestone.
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