37901 ‘Mirrlees Pioneer’ caught in the dock at Manchester Piccadilly. I remember seeing this loco paired with another 37/9 in South Wales on the Llanwern Iron Ore. I did prefer it in red stripe railfreight, though it still looks mighty!
#Class37 #ManchesterPiccadilly
#Class37 #ManchesterPiccadilly
May 24, 2026 at 7:19 AM
37901 ‘Mirrlees Pioneer’ caught in the dock at Manchester Piccadilly. I remember seeing this loco paired with another 37/9 in South Wales on the Llanwern Iron Ore. I did prefer it in red stripe railfreight, though it still looks mighty!
#Class37 #ManchesterPiccadilly
#Class37 #ManchesterPiccadilly
#Shedwatch #Newport with 66659 working 6B27 Llanwern Exchange Sidings to Margam. Taken 17/4/25.
April 22, 2025 at 7:16 AM
#Shedwatch #Newport with 66659 working 6B27 Llanwern Exchange Sidings to Margam. Taken 17/4/25.
🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer has announced 7 new train stations in Wales:
Magor and Undy
Llanwern
Cardiff East
Newport West
Somerton
Cardiff Parkway
Deeside industrial park
Magor and Undy
Llanwern
Cardiff East
Newport West
Somerton
Cardiff Parkway
Deeside industrial park
February 18, 2026 at 9:31 AM
🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer has announced 7 new train stations in Wales:
Magor and Undy
Llanwern
Cardiff East
Newport West
Somerton
Cardiff Parkway
Deeside industrial park
Magor and Undy
Llanwern
Cardiff East
Newport West
Somerton
Cardiff Parkway
Deeside industrial park
‘The line’s running half-empty’: Llanwern steelworks feels the heat from cheap steel imports. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
‘The line’s running half-empty’: Llanwern steelworks feels the heat from cheap steel imports
New quotas to protect UK firms and jobs appear to be having opposite effect in products such as galvanised steel
www.theguardian.com
August 23, 2026 at 12:56 PM
‘The line’s running half-empty’: Llanwern steelworks feels the heat from cheap steel imports. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
‘The line’s running half-empty’: Llanwern steelworks feels the heat from cheap steel imports
‘The line’s running half-empty’: Llanwern steelworks feels the heat from cheap steel imports
New quotas to protect UK firms and jobs appear to be having opposite effect in products such as galvanised steel
At Tata Steel’s factory in Llanwern, south Wales, production lines that should be running full-time are now falling quiet for parts of the day, with workers being put on to maintenance and cleaning work while machines sit idle.
There aren’t enough orders to keep them running all the time, the company says, because of a surge of cheap steel coming from Asian countries that is threatening the viability of several UK sites that make similar products, and risk hundreds of jobs. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
August 23, 2026 at 9:15 AM
‘The line’s running half-empty’: Llanwern steelworks feels the heat from cheap steel imports
60034 passes Newport East Usk Yard with Llanwern - Margam empties. 19.10.94 #TugTuesday
January 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
60034 passes Newport East Usk Yard with Llanwern - Margam empties. 19.10.94 #TugTuesday
Born in Bayswater, London, and raised at Llanwern House near Llanwern, Thomas studied history at Somerville College, Oxford. She joined the Women’s Social and Political Union and became secretary of its Newport branch. 3/7
February 27, 2026 at 8:38 AM
Born in Bayswater, London, and raised at Llanwern House near Llanwern, Thomas studied history at Somerville College, Oxford. She joined the Women’s Social and Political Union and became secretary of its Newport branch. 3/7
The plan includes 7 new stations, funded by £500m from the Spending Review:
Magor and Undy
Llanwern
Cardiff East
Newport West
Somerton
Cardiff Parkway
Deeside industrial park
Other work includes line speed & safety work, line & station upgrades and increased frequency of services.
2/3
Magor and Undy
Llanwern
Cardiff East
Newport West
Somerton
Cardiff Parkway
Deeside industrial park
Other work includes line speed & safety work, line & station upgrades and increased frequency of services.
2/3
February 18, 2026 at 8:09 AM
The plan includes 7 new stations, funded by £500m from the Spending Review:
Magor and Undy
Llanwern
Cardiff East
Newport West
Somerton
Cardiff Parkway
Deeside industrial park
Other work includes line speed & safety work, line & station upgrades and increased frequency of services.
2/3
Magor and Undy
Llanwern
Cardiff East
Newport West
Somerton
Cardiff Parkway
Deeside industrial park
Other work includes line speed & safety work, line & station upgrades and increased frequency of services.
2/3
Speaking up for Newport @welshlabour.bsky.social conference @NewportEastLabour #Steel #Llanwern #CommunityUnion
November 17, 2024 at 8:42 AM
Speaking up for Newport @welshlabour.bsky.social conference @NewportEastLabour #Steel #Llanwern #CommunityUnion
Grey morning today, yesterday morning was much brighter! 😅
66651 clags through Cardiff Central with a bunch of steel coils, on 6H25 from Margam to Llanwern Exchange Sidings
Quite the show from 66651!
📸 - 03/05/2026 ❤️
66651 clags through Cardiff Central with a bunch of steel coils, on 6H25 from Margam to Llanwern Exchange Sidings
Quite the show from 66651!
📸 - 03/05/2026 ❤️
May 4, 2026 at 8:49 AM
Grey morning today, yesterday morning was much brighter! 😅
66651 clags through Cardiff Central with a bunch of steel coils, on 6H25 from Margam to Llanwern Exchange Sidings
Quite the show from 66651!
📸 - 03/05/2026 ❤️
66651 clags through Cardiff Central with a bunch of steel coils, on 6H25 from Margam to Llanwern Exchange Sidings
Quite the show from 66651!
📸 - 03/05/2026 ❤️
#Llanwern #Newport #Monmouthshire #Wales #GwentLevels #church #architecture #medieval #gothic #cemetery #pylons #photography 30 June 2024
November 28, 2024 at 12:39 PM
Nit forgetting Llanwern but then again that was the fecking tories
April 12, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Nit forgetting Llanwern but then again that was the fecking tories
Archeolegwyr Llygaid y Dydd yn dysgu am Fosaig Llanwern 🌼 Llygaid y Dydd’s archaeologists learning about the Llanwern mosaic 🌼
October 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Archeolegwyr Llygaid y Dydd yn dysgu am Fosaig Llanwern 🌼 Llygaid y Dydd’s archaeologists learning about the Llanwern mosaic 🌼
Hauling a big load of steel coils, 66131 sits on the line covering Platform 0 further up, while waiting for the signal ahead to clear
Working 6H25 Margam T.C. to Llanwern Exchange Sidings
📸 - 05/07/2026 ❤️
Working 6H25 Margam T.C. to Llanwern Exchange Sidings
📸 - 05/07/2026 ❤️
July 6, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Hauling a big load of steel coils, 66131 sits on the line covering Platform 0 further up, while waiting for the signal ahead to clear
Working 6H25 Margam T.C. to Llanwern Exchange Sidings
📸 - 05/07/2026 ❤️
Working 6H25 Margam T.C. to Llanwern Exchange Sidings
📸 - 05/07/2026 ❤️
Archeolegwyr Llygaid y Dydd yn dysgu am Fosaig Llanwern 🌼 Llygaid y Dydd’s archaeologists learning about the Llanwern mosaic 🌼
October 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Archeolegwyr Llygaid y Dydd yn dysgu am Fosaig Llanwern 🌼 Llygaid y Dydd’s archaeologists learning about the Llanwern mosaic 🌼
The 1995 radio adaptation of Box of Delighte is now on YouTube. I had this, recorded off Radio 4, on cassette for years, and would listen in my unheated rooftop flat, baking bread in my tiny two ring stove, watching the popping lights of the Llanwern steelworks on the horizon.
youtu.be/SqKkbvzVchI
youtu.be/SqKkbvzVchI
The Box of Delights (1995) by John Masefield, starring Donald Sinden and Lionel Jeffries
YouTube video by Mystical Magpie
youtu.be
December 8, 2025 at 8:48 PM
The 1995 radio adaptation of Box of Delighte is now on YouTube. I had this, recorded off Radio 4, on cassette for years, and would listen in my unheated rooftop flat, baking bread in my tiny two ring stove, watching the popping lights of the Llanwern steelworks on the horizon.
youtu.be/SqKkbvzVchI
youtu.be/SqKkbvzVchI
Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway. 104 Llanwern. English Electric Vulcan works no. D1249/3947, 1968. Rebuilt GECT, 1975; Hunslet works no. 9386, 2015. Ex. British Steel, Llanwern. To Tunstead Quarry, Derbyshire, 10/2015. Photo: 07.07.2001. #EnglishElectric #Pontypool #Blaenavon #industrial #shunter
July 19, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway. 104 Llanwern. English Electric Vulcan works no. D1249/3947, 1968. Rebuilt GECT, 1975; Hunslet works no. 9386, 2015. Ex. British Steel, Llanwern. To Tunstead Quarry, Derbyshire, 10/2015. Photo: 07.07.2001. #EnglishElectric #Pontypool #Blaenavon #industrial #shunter
Lots of big projects like you've named need plate steel. Llanwern produces coil. Coincidentally steel from there is often used in solar farms. A lot of the incentives from UK Gov are on price, and there are issues on energy. Coincidentally a solar farm next to Llanwern was turned down.
August 23, 2026 at 11:21 AM
Lots of big projects like you've named need plate steel. Llanwern produces coil. Coincidentally steel from there is often used in solar farms. A lot of the incentives from UK Gov are on price, and there are issues on energy. Coincidentally a solar farm next to Llanwern was turned down.
Llanwern and Port Talbot steel works both have units called Cold Mills run by men called David (Dai). The one chap was Dai James who was nicknamed 'Vinnie' and when the other called Dai Davies started they called *him* 'Dai Twice'.
Because of my pony tail I was once called Shergar. 🐎
Because of my pony tail I was once called Shergar. 🐎
December 31, 2024 at 10:21 AM
Llanwern and Port Talbot steel works both have units called Cold Mills run by men called David (Dai). The one chap was Dai James who was nicknamed 'Vinnie' and when the other called Dai Davies started they called *him* 'Dai Twice'.
Because of my pony tail I was once called Shergar. 🐎
Because of my pony tail I was once called Shergar. 🐎
To help further, here's Llanwern solar farm, Torness nuclear power station in Scotland, Grangemouth Oil Refinery in Scotland and Hyde Park (not Kensington Gardens) all to the same scales.
April 9, 2026 at 3:57 PM
To help further, here's Llanwern solar farm, Torness nuclear power station in Scotland, Grangemouth Oil Refinery in Scotland and Hyde Park (not Kensington Gardens) all to the same scales.
Newport , south wales . Triple headed class 37s on llanwern to port talbot empty iron train , probably around the mid 1970s :)
February 8, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Newport , south wales . Triple headed class 37s on llanwern to port talbot empty iron train , probably around the mid 1970s :)
Question now is when do Llanwern, Newport West etc get their stations if the money is spread over such a long period.
June 11, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Question now is when do Llanwern, Newport West etc get their stations if the money is spread over such a long period.
We used to have that until Llanwern closed. I know that stink!
July 30, 2023 at 3:04 PM
We used to have that until Llanwern closed. I know that stink!