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Docks Railway.


East Dock Railway Station.
On our site with the kind permission of the Rhondda Cynon Taff Library Service.
Visit their site from a link on our home page.

 

East Dock Station 1949. The monkey bridge crossing the lines can be seen on the left.


St Thomas side of the bridge into the dock ..( Known as the monkey bridge )


Dock side of the bridge.   ( The bridge spanned the two arched buttresses. )


Aerial view of the monkey bridge. It spanned from the main road to the wharf of Prince of Wales Dock.


East Dock Engine Shed with St Thomas Church in the background.


King's Dock Junction 1930s.


Burrows Junction Signal Box in the 1930s.


Swansea East Dock engine in  1960.


Ex G.W.R .  Pilots at Danygraig Engine Shed.


Danygraig Engine Shed taken in 1951.


Danygraig Engine Shed taken on 24th of October 2008. Now being used as a chemical warehouse.



Traffic staff in front of the Kings Dock Junction Signal Box.  Brian Hunter, Alec Hitchings and Jeremy Figgures.


 Inside the Kings Dock Junction Signal Box.


Alec Hitchings inside the Kings Dock Junction Signal Box 1987.
 

Map showing the location of  signal boxes on the Kings Dock.
 

Map showing the location of  signal boxes on the Prince of Wales Dock.


 

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