2-888-758 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Terminus, at Swansea, [Wales], 1850. Opening of the South Wales Railway. 'The...Railway is intended to effect a direct communication with the Great Western line at Gloucester...[it] communicates with one of the richest mineral districts in the South Wales coal basin...The arrival at Swansea took place a little after one o'clock, the engine having made the trip from Cardiff to Swansea, including stoppages, in two hours and a half. The engines, which were guided by Mr. Gooch and Mr. Martley, were studded with banners, and gaily dressed with evergreens, and came in in splendid style, amidst the inspiring strains of the military band...The Swansea Terminus...has a passenger-station 70 feet by 60 feet, covered with corrugated iron. The contractors were Messrs. Hughes and Jones'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.