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DerekC

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That one is indeed on the TVR Maerdy Branch Line, but there are three closed stations prior to that on the Taff Vale Railway. The first of which is.....

Hafod

HINT ... The one following that is a 1st station.

I must admit to being stumped here. I can see Hafod (1st station - 1861 to 1892) on early OS maps but no trace of anything else between there and Maerdy Junction other than Porth (2nd station) which is still open. Porth (1st station) was on the main line west of Maerdy Junction, according to the maps.
 

Calthrop

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I -- admittedly "no scholar" -- am once again bewildered here: can find nothing enlightening or to the purpose, re the present queries, in any of the sources which I have.
 

Xenophon PCDGS

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I have, after many hours of deliberation, sent a joint message to two of "The Regulars" who have been involved in the current discussions on the closed stations on the TVR Rhondda Fawr Line.

Subject to what the responses state, we can then carry on past the TVR Rhondda Fawr Line that already has had postings made upon it and carry on the the six closed stations on the final leg of this journey on the TVR Maerdy Branch Line.

If no agreement can be reached on the matters of the closed stations on the TVR Rhondda Fawr Line. then it behoves me to truncate this journey at Pontypridd Graig on the Barry Railway and to re-edit the journey preamble to reflect that decision. I will then launch a new leg starting in the north-eastern part of England.
 

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ADJUDICATION

The matter of Pandy is now resolved and its position has been established as being AFTER the junction that led to the TVR Maerdy branch line, so that station cannot feature as a posting submission on this quiz.

The position of Porth station has now been clarified by @DerekC in the "discussion conversation" that was held for which I am most grateful.

Therefore the quiz can now re-commence on the final leg of this journey, the TVR Maerdy branch line, with its six closed stations.
 

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In time luckily, it seems, to scrub Tylorstown -- the wretch Dewick seems not to have heard of Pontygwaith Halt.
 

Xenophon PCDGS

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We next move to England for the next journey.....

This is number 912 in the series so far.....

The journey starts at the closed station of Washington
It follows the line of the Stanhope and Tyne Railway
It then follows the line of the Weardale Extension Railway
It then follows the line of the Deerness Valley Railway
It then follows the line of the North Eastern Railway Main Line
It then follows the line of the NER Durham Coast Line
It then follows the line of the Middlesbrough and Guisborough Railway
It then follows the line of the Cleveland Railway
It then follows the line of the Whitby, Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway
It then follows the line of the Scarborough and Whitby Railway
It then follows the line of the Y&NMR Scarborough to York Line
It then follows the line of the Derwent Valley Light Railway
It then follows the line of the Great Northern Railway Main Line
It then follows the line of the LYR Askern Branch Line
It then follows the line of the Wakefield, Pontefract & Goole Railway
It then follows the line of the LYR and GNR Methley Joint Railway
It then follows the line of the GNR Ardsley to Gildersome Line
It then follows the line of the Leeds, Bradford and Halifax Junction Railway
It then follows the line of the Leeds and Northallerton Railway
It then follows the line of the Leeds and Selby Railway
It then follows the line of the Leeds, Castleford and Pontefract Junction Railway
The journey ends at the closed station of Ledston

The first closed station on this journey is Washington
 
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