Plans include a visitor centre at the former Maerdy colliery that closed in 1990 A ... when the Taff Vale Railway extended their Cardiff/Porth route to Ynyshir. It eventually reached Maerdy ...

Where the old colliery's pithead once stood is now ... At the moment, with no existing rail line, Maerdy and the Rhondda Fach are not even on the outline Metro map for south east Wales.

Mardy colliery once stood at the very top of the Rhondda Fach valley A hundred years ago there were 53 collieries in the Rhondda. By 1990, there was only one left, at Maerdy at the very top of the ...

It consists of the pitwheel of Maerdy Colliery, along with masonry from ... From here, after passing part of the old railway line, you will shortly arrive at the Castell Nos reservoir, a beautiful ...

"I went down the mine when I was 18 hoping I'd be down there until I retired," shared the 63-year-old, who worked at Maerdy Colliery until its closure in 1990, five years after the strikes.

Money will be flowing into Maerdy to complete the restoration of the former colliery. Money will be flowing into Maerdy to complete the restoration of the former colliery. The south of the ...

A once thriving village is now run down and deserted according to locals, with barren streets punctuated with cans of Carling and Strongbow. Residents of Maerdy, in south Wales, think they have ...

If one place typified the attitude of the south Wales miners to the strike of 1984-85, it was Maerdy. Only "token" pickets were ever needed at the colliery at the top of the Rhondda Fach because of ...

Maerdy was the last surviving deep mine in the world-famous Rhondda coalfield. It effectively closed in 1985, although its coal continued to be brought to the surface via Tower Colliery at Hirwaun ...

While the passenger service was discontinued as part of UK railway cuts which followed ... The longer-term plans include reopening the shaft at Maerdy colliery as an underground mining experience.

“I went down the mine when I was 18 hoping I’d be down there until I retired,” says the 63-year-old who worked at Maerdy Colliery until it closed in 1990 five years after the strikes.