#0192
Llynvi and Ogmore Railway
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Avonside Engine Company· from 1866· former railway in Wales, United Kingdom
what is it?
In 1861 the Llynvi Valley Railway was opened in Glamorganshire, Wales, to convey mineral products to the Bristol Channel at Porthcawl. It adopted an earlier tramroad, the Duffryn Llynvi and Porthcawl Railway. The Llynvi and Ogmore Railway (L&OR) was opened in 1865, and the two companies amalgamated to form the Llynvi and Ogmore Railway in 1866.
who runs it
fun facts
- First built 160 years ago, in 1866.
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1866
- number built
- —
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Avonside Engine Company
- operators
- Great Western Railway
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 2,134 mm broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 0-6-0ST
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1866973, Wikipedia: Llynvi and Ogmore Railway (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.