An early morning Arriva Trains Wales Class 142 Pacer DMU crosses Porthkerry Viaduct in the Vale of Glamorgan heading west towards Bridgend from Cardiff Canton Sidings on the 5F00 ECS.

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I have not focused that much on Freightliner coal trains mainly because they are not as photogenic as the DBS ones (with the old EWS maroon livery), particularly in landscape shots, in my view. That said, Freightliner transport all the coal to Aberthaw power station performing a vital surface, and DBS coal trains are something of a rarity nowadays in South Wales, though they still run but not to Aberthaw. So I thought I should change that. In this scene, 66526 crosses Porthkerry Viaduct towards Barry heading coal empties destined for Tower Colliery (4C46) from Stoke Gifford via Aberthaw on a beautiful summer’s day.

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This time looking at the viaduct in the opposite direction towards the north, a London (Paddington) - Carmarthen First Great Western HST heads west as it crosses Porthkerry Viaduct in the Vale of Glamorgan.

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66116 heads east towards Barry as it crosses Porthkerry Viaduct 53 minutes late, working the 4C95 Aberthaw - Cwmbargoed coal empties.

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An Arriva Trains Wales Cardiff-Bridgend DMU Pacer service seen here crossing Porthkerry Viaduct. Under the Beeching Act, the Vale of Glamorgan Line (from Barry to Bridgend) was closed to passenger services in 1964. In 2005, however, the Welsh Assembly reopened the line to passenger services from Cardiff to Bridgend.

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