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Latitude: 51.7211 / 51°43'16"N
Longitude: -3.3652 / 3°21'54"W
OS Eastings: 305790
OS Northings: 203373
OS Grid: SO057033
Mapcode National: GBR HP.2N7N
Mapcode Global: VH6CY.MZ9Y
Plus Code: 9C3RPJCM+FW
Entry Name: Gethin Tramway Bridge
Listing Date: 29 July 2003
Last Amended: 29 July 2003
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 81751
Building Class: Transport
ID on this website: 300081751
Location: Situated at Gethin on the S side of Abercanaid just W of the former Glamorganshire canal.
County: Merthyr Tydfil
Community: Troed-y-rhiw
Community: Troed-y-Rhiw
Locality: Abercanaid
Built-Up Area: Merthyr Tydfil
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: Bridge
Mid C19 tramway bridge to enable access for Gethin farm to its land, under the Gethin tramway incline. The tramway, built c1846/49, connected the two Crawshay collieries, Gethin No. 1 Pit (Lower Gethin) and Gethin No. 2 Pit. It permitted coal from either to be taken direct to Cyfarthfa Works (via No. 2 Pit) or via the Glamorganshire canal from the dock alongside No. 1 Pit.
Narrow bridge with tall narrow arch (2.3m high, 2.9m wide and 9.9m deep), of rock-faced rubble stone with stringcourse over. Tall masonry revetment to side of sloping tramroad. No parapets.
Included as a well-preserved tramroad bridge of industrial archaeological interest, a now rare example of tramroad engineering in the region.
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