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Crumlin viaduct 8mm cine film (1964)

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Uploaded by on Dec 9, 2010

Rare super8 cine footage of the very last train to cross the viaduct at Crumlin on june 13th 1964 including its demolition a year later (notice no hardhats!) .Also the Hafodyrynys coal mine and washery .south Wales.

Check out the great website below

www.crumlinviaduct.co.uk

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  • A fantastic piece of valleys history sadly destroyed. I was born 50 yards from the viaduct on Lewis street the terrace just above it, and I remember walking over it after the line was closed. Also its great to see Crumlin as it was nearly 50 years ago.

  • @antohosm43 I totally agree with you the Crumlin Viaduct was a engineering master piece and should never have been pulled down. IO often used to watch the trikan crossing it when I attended Crumlin College on top of School hill

  • Lovely old video! I saw the viaduct many times but never travelled over it. It was so high to me as a child in the early fifties. What a ghastly piece of vandalism to destroy it and deprive today's children of the chance to marvel at Victorian engineering. People now visit the South Wales valleys to view the remains of our industrial heritage.

  • Wonderful piece of historic film. I bet there is more out there somewhere.

  • Outstanding. I had no idea anything like that existed!

  • Where did you get this video from?

  • Sadly generations to come will have little if any idea of what has been lost.

  • Thank you for uploading this priceless footage. This is the closest I'll ever come to a trip over the Crumlin Viaduct. Of course, in the '60s, the car was the new King and the declining railway infrastructure was seen singularly as a millstone.....But this irresponsible act is surely a case of throwing the baby out with the bathwater and will dumbfound generations to come.

  • What fantastic historic footage, and what a dsgraceful act of vandalism on our railway heritage. A very sad ending for such a beautiful structure. I wonder if any of those in the film seen destroying the viaduct are still around today to see what a terrible mistake they were making.

  • great footage. anymore where that came from?

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