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Railway Family

In this section we shall delve into the team's railway family who's ancestors were railwaymen!

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My great uncle Bill Harding worked at Cresselly Crossing Signalbox as a signaller / signalman

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This is where my great great uncle George Harding worked as a wagon repairer in the 1950s / 1960s 

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The loco in the photo on the bottom is what my uncle Malcolm Wakefield fired in the 1960s when he was based up in Hereford as a fireman

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The photo below is where my great great-grandfather Alfred G W Wakefield worked as a station master in the 1890s / 1900s

mountain ash cardiff road railway statio

The map below is where my great-grandfather worked as a P/Way ganger in the 1920s / 1930s / 1940s / 1950s / 1960s

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