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Cab Ride: Port Talbot - Camarthen - Pembroke Dock
With Network Rail reorganising the Rail Head Treatment trains for the 2025 season, Colas along with GBRf, picked up all of the loco-hauled sets once operated by DRS, DB Cargo and Freightliner. In turn, this lead to a number of route learning locos systemwide and this cab ride features one of them.
Colas won the contract to operate the RHTT circuit in West Wales. This was previously run by DB and working off Margam, starting from 2025, it switched to Port Talbot.
Remarkably, for this route learner, Class 59, 59003 'Yeoman Highlander' was used! On lease from GBRf, this may well have been the first time a 59 has run to the likes of Fishguard Harbour, Milford Haven and Pembroke Dock. This programme, looks at the first part of what was an epic day in West Wales.
Filmed in May 2025 and starting out from Port Talbot, we run onto the almost freight-only Swansea District line, avoiding Swansea itself, then along the shores of the Bristol Channel through to Carmarthen. Reversing here we continue west to Whitland, taking the branch to Tenby and onto Pembroke Dock. For most of this journey, it s colour light signals, as the West Wales resignalling programme progresses - but traditional lower quadrant signals and signal boxes were still being used at Pembury and Ferryside.
The RHTT which normally works these lines usually runs overnight so to have a loco, in daylight, at the likes of Camarthen, Tenby and Pembroke Dock is quite remarkable! To have a Class 59 at these locations, filmed here from the cab, makes it even more remarkable - a small piece of Welsh railway history in the making!
The full journey is shown. Maps, on-screen captions and minimal narration. A thrash cam in the back cab records the loco at work and ambient sounds.
Duration: 150 minutes
Download size: 1080p HD = 9.1GB SD = 5.2GB
Format: 16:9 widescreen
Producer: Train Crazy
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