Llanmynach & Tawel-llety Railway

Sychnant Viaduct

The station's popularity stems from the Sychnant Ravine which was opened up and publicised in Victorian times. A network of footpaths was laid to enable tourists to explore the area and a refreshment room was built in the ravine. Today the footpaths remain and are being re-discovered by a new generation of walkers and the less energetic alike. Tall oaks line the ravine and a canopy of leaves gives dancing, dappled sunlight in the summer breeze. There is a refreshment room still in the ravine, having been only recently renovated and re-opened since standing unused during the war. Sixty feet above the river, the railway strides across the defile majestically on a brick-built three-arch viaduct, the largest single piece of civil engineering on the line, before plunging into another short cutting.
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On an overcast afternoon, 'Lew' rumbles across the Sychnant Ravine with a short pick-up goods from Tawel-Llety.
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