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- Die Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway, auch Burry Port and Gwendreath Railway genannt, war eine Eisenbahngesellschaft in Südwales. Die Gesellschaft entstand am 30. April 1866 aus der Fusion der Kidwelly and Burry Port Railway und der Burry Port Company. Wegen eines Schreibfehlers im Gesetzestext der Konzession lautet der offizielle Name der Gesellschaft Burry Port and Gwendreath Railway. Das Streckennetz umfasste 34 Kilometer einschließlich aller Anschlussgleise. Die führte von nach . Lange Zeit waren die Einnahmen des Unternehmens aus dem Güterverkehr gering. Personenverkehr durfte auf Grund gesetzlicher Einschränkungen nicht durchgeführt werden. Die Gesellschaft verfügte deshalb nicht über genügend liquide Mittel und musste zweimal unter Konkursverwaltung gestellt werden. Erst der wirtschaftliche Aufschwung um die Jahrhundertwende, sowie die Beratung durch den Ingenieur und Manager verbesserte die Situation. Stephens sorgte auch dafür, dass 1913 der Personenverkehr auf der Strecke eingeführt werden konnte. Am 1. Juli 1922 übernahm die Great Western Railway die inzwischen florierende Gesellschaft. (de)
- The Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway (BP&GVR) was a mineral railway company that constructed a railway line in Carmarthenshire, Wales, by conversion of a canal, to connect collieries and limestone pits to the sea at Kidwelly. It extended its network to include Burry Port, Trimsaran and a brickworks at Pwll, later extending to Sandy near Llanelli. For a time the company worked the separate Gwendraeth Valleys Railway. The BP&GVR was notable because of the very low height of some overbridges, a legacy of the canal conversion. It was completely dependent on the economy of the mineral industries it served and due to depression in them, it was for many years in administration. In the final years of the nineteenth century those industries developed considerably and the fortunes of the BP&GVR improved as well, paying 10% dividends for several years, before absorption by the Great Western Railway in 1922. For some time the line carried miners to their place of work, and their families to market, and from 1913 the Company carried the general public in passenger trains. After 1945 mineral extraction in the area declined steeply; passenger operation ceased in 1953, and in the 1960s most of the network closed progressively as pits closed. The final short section at Kidwelly closed in 1998. (en)
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- Die Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway, auch Burry Port and Gwendreath Railway genannt, war eine Eisenbahngesellschaft in Südwales. Die Gesellschaft entstand am 30. April 1866 aus der Fusion der Kidwelly and Burry Port Railway und der Burry Port Company. Wegen eines Schreibfehlers im Gesetzestext der Konzession lautet der offizielle Name der Gesellschaft Burry Port and Gwendreath Railway. Das Streckennetz umfasste 34 Kilometer einschließlich aller Anschlussgleise. Die führte von nach . Am 1. Juli 1922 übernahm die Great Western Railway die inzwischen florierende Gesellschaft. (de)
- The Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway (BP&GVR) was a mineral railway company that constructed a railway line in Carmarthenshire, Wales, by conversion of a canal, to connect collieries and limestone pits to the sea at Kidwelly. It extended its network to include Burry Port, Trimsaran and a brickworks at Pwll, later extending to Sandy near Llanelli. For a time the company worked the separate Gwendraeth Valleys Railway. The BP&GVR was notable because of the very low height of some overbridges, a legacy of the canal conversion. (en)
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- Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway (en)
- Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway (de)
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