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Port Talbot - Swansea Railway Bridge (Neath Canal)

 
Croft Road, Neath SA11 3LH, United Kingdom (B4434)
 
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Port Talbot - Swansea Railway Bridge (Neath Canal) is a minor waterways place on the Neath and Tennant Canal - (Neath Canal) between Briton Ferry (Terminal basin) (3 miles to the southwest) and Aberdulais Junction (1 mile and 7 furlongs and 1 lock to the northeast).
 
 
The nearest place in the direction of Briton Ferry is Bridge Street Bridge (Neath) (Low road bridge); ¼ furlongs away.
 
The nearest place in the direction of Aberdulais Junction is Croft Road Bridge; a few yards away.

Mooring here is unrated.

There is a bridge here which takes a railway over the canal.

 
 
Amenities

Amenities nearby at Bridge Street Bridge (Neath)

 Morison's
 Morrisons
 Barclays
 Cashpoint
 Cashpoint
 Cashpoint
 Cashpoint
 Morrisons Fuel
 Wm Morrison Supermarkets Plc 274
 
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[Port Talbot Parkway railway station] Talbot town centre. The first section of the South Wales Railway, that between Chepstow and Swansea, which included the station originally named Port [Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway] opened from Treherbert through the tunnel to Port Talbot and Aberavon in 1890. Authorisation to extend to Swansea, and also Neath, was secured and those lines [Pontardawe] council is elected. Pontardawe forms part of the county borough of Neath Port Talbot. On the opposite bank of the River Tawe, the village of Alltwen, part [Neath] Castell-nedd) is a town and community situated in the principal area of Neath Port Talbot, Wales with a population of 19,258 in 2011. The wider urban area, which [Swansea] with Neath and Port Talbot, Swansea formed a wider Urban Area of 300,352 in 2011. During the 19th-century industrial heyday, Swansea was the key centre [Swansea and Mumbles Railway] The Swansea and Mumbles Railway was the venue for the world's first passenger horsecar railway service, located in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom. Originally [Llynvi and Ogmore Railway] 1898 this was upgraded to railway status as part of the Port Talbot Railway and Docks Company Ogmore Valleys Extension Railway scheme. Under the original [Bridgend railway station] Western Railway: Swansea via Port Talbot Parkway and Neath. Carmarthen via Swansea. Transport for Wales & Swanline: Swansea via Port Talbot Parkway and [Margam Knuckle Yard] development of Port Talbot Steelworks, Margam Steelworks and associated expansion of the Port of Port Talbot. In 1894, the Port Talbot Railway and Docks Company [Swing Bridge, River Neath] River Swing Bridge is a swing bridge over the River Neath, in Wales. It carried the former Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway near Skewen. The bridge was constructed
 
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Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway - Wikipedia
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