This is simply a page allowing you to select where you wish to go.

 

It provides access to a range of photo galleries – some stored here on our site, some by means of external links to photo collections, such as Fotopic collections, and some by means of external links to video clips such as those on YouTube.

 

We’ve deliberately made this page free of bells and whistles, and the links are in plain text.  To get back here simply press the ‘back arrow’ on your browser toolbar, or, if you’ve strayed too far, use the ‘drop-down’ facility on your browser bar to see your browse history, and come back to us from there.

 

LINKS TO HISTORIC COLLECTIONS

Peter Hudson:
Quite out of the blue, we received a CD a few years back with twelve remarkable images taken by a passenger on the ‘Caerwent Cannonball’ which paid a visit to Furnace Sidings in 1980.  The passenger was Peter Hudson.  They have been posted to this site, and viewing is highly recommended.  To view press HERE

Arthur Llewellyn:
Member Arthur Llewellyn is an able and prolific photographer, who, fortunately for all of us, took a large number of colour photographs mainly in the early seventies, but some both earlier (in monochrome), and later.  He rode on several railtours (including the same tour as Peter Hudson), but concentrated his efforts on the industrial scene, particularly in Blaenavon.  His slides and photographs were scanned. In some scans, the scanner has developed a fault so that the image is more or less useless, however we include them here, both as a placeholder, and in case they are of limited use to someone.

In due course we shall try and rescan the damaged images.  One or two of the darker images have been gamma corrected, but this has been undertaken spasmodically, and in time we shall try and correct those that remain rather dark.  We have yet to caption the images, again, give us time.  There are three volumes.  The first contains almost 150 images, the second and third about 36 images each.  Arthur has more images, and we will try and invest in a decent slide scanner, before we try and upload them here.  All of the images are reduced in resolution to enable efficient use of memory and to reduce download times, however, if there is a particular image that you’d like to examine in fine detail an email to .
webmaster@pontypool-and-blaenavon.co.uk
- may bring forth results if you are not too greedy, or in a hurry

The images are stored externally, on a fotopic site, so the site may be accessed from outside this site.  It is at:
http://www.arthurspics.fotopic.net

LINKS TO FOTOPIC COLLECTIONS

 We have a number of keen photographers on the railway, who are anxious that you should see their efforts – and for which the PBRCo accepts absolutely no responsibility!  Since member’s contributions seem to grow almost by the week, we’ve decided that, (rather than divide them into collections and topics, as we did in the past),  we should simply point you at the member’s Fotopic site and invite you to navigate from there.

Members Fotopic sites:
Mark Henderson -  http://sb.fotopic.net/
Dr Angela Porter -
http://romanesque.fotopic.net/
Alistair Grieve -
http://aligrieve.fotopic.net/
Alex Hinshelwood -
http://hudswell.fotopic.net/
Dr Aiden Kehoe -
http://onthe pontypoolblaenavonrailway.fotopic.net/
and the Llantarnam Abbey Group - http://llantarnamabbey.fotopic.net

- and from our younger members:
Adam -
http://37712.fotopic.net
Aled -
http://37430.net
Rhys -
http://rhysicus.fotopic.net
Ben - http://benstrains.fotopic.net

 

LINKS TO VIDEO CLIPS

Two collections stored in Youtube:

 

1.  A large collection from one of our Junior members, Adam Gane, mainly on the PBR, but with some from around Bristol, and a few from elsewhere.

YOUTUBE - ADAM

 

2.  A few from our webmaster, including a rather dark internal virtual tour through our proposed new station at Furnace Sidings

YOUTUBE - PBRAIL