The South Wales Branch /Cangen De Cymru will hold its monthly talk in the Old Church Rooms Radyr, Cardiff at 7.30 pm on Wednesday 14th May 2025. In keeping with the themes of Railway 200 , Peter Fortune will speak about the history of the Barry Railway, an influential railway and docks company in South Wales.
Peter is a well known presenter and historian of railway development in the South Wales coalfield . His talk will give a local Welsh flavour to the commemorations of the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway. The common factor was obviously the sinking of coal mines and the transport of the coal to docks and harbours