On 30 August 2004, ex-GWR 4-cyl 4-6-0 5029 Nunney Castle, made only the second run in over 40 years, of a Castle Class locomotive to Carmarthen in West Wales. The return route took in the Swansea District Line, a steeply graded route which today is used only by freight trains. The lowering sun glints off the side of 5029 as she passes Llangyfelach, once the site of an immense steelworks employing thousands of men. Today only landscaped fields mark the site of that once huge factory.

Photo & scan Roger Griffiths; jrcs@blueyonder.co.uk