Llynvi and Ogmore Railway

The Llynvi and Ogmore Railway was a mineral and passenger railway company in Glamorganshire, South Wales, formed in 1866 when the Llynvi Valley Railway and the Ogmore Valley Railway were amalgamated under an act of Parliament. Its lines carried coal and the output of the local iron and zinc smelting industries from the valleys around Maesteg and Tondu to the Bristol Channel at Porthcawl, where the harbour was at first an important outlet before its role declined, and to a junction with the South Wales Railway at Bridgend. The system was extremely busy with mineral traffic until 1914. The Great Western Railway took over its management in 1873 and absorbed it fully on 1 July 1883. After 1945 the network shrank with the coal industry, although the line from Bridgend to Maesteg was reopened to passengers in 1992 and is the principal railway activity left on the old system.