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GW 2-8-0T at Newport Pill Locomotive Depot - 15 April 1951

GW 2-8-0T at Newport Pill Locomotive Depot Dead in the Yard is Churchward '4200' 2-8-0T No. 4280 (built 5/20). Newport Pill Depot was in the extensive Newport Docks area and until 6/65 served the traffic of the former Alexandra (Newport & South Wale...

'Merry-go-round' iron-ore empties passing Newport Station with two Type 3 Diesels - 14 Aug 1963

View eastwards, towards the east, north, and SW generally; ex-GWR South Wales main line. To supply the vast new Steelworks opened by Richard Thomas & Baldwin in 1962 at Llanwern, imported iron ore brought into Newport Docks had to be moved for a shor...

William Parkes of Newport - the last survivor of the Welsh Bantam Brigade

William Parkes in Army uniform. (Image found in the Napa Valley Register, December 15, 2000. Reproduced under 'fair use', courtesy of the California Digital Newspaper Collection, Center for Bibliographic Studies and Research, University of Califor...