GWR 57XX 0-6-0PT No 3728 at Talgarth with the 12.15pm Hereford to Dowlais tank train on July 28, 1959.
These tanks are liquid ammonia tanks and were worked between Billingham-on-Tees (Near Middlesbrough) and Dowlais ICI works. Liquid ammonia was used in the production of fertilisers. On the journey to Dowlais the tankers would have been empty. This working was routed over the HH&B from January 1955 after the original route used from Abergavenny and Merthyr closed in December 1954.

Signalman George Brown oversees the proceedings. I have it on good authority that Goerge kept his box so clean that he insisted that people had to remove their dirty boots before entering.



Photo: R.O. Tuck/Rail Archive Stephenson