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COLEFORD, MONMOUTH, USK, AND PONTY-POOL RAILWAY, a railway of Gloucester and Monmouth. It was authorized in 1853; and 4 miles of it, from Usk to a junction with the Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford railway, were opened in 1857. It was designed to develope mineral operations from Llanfihangel to Coleford; and to go through Dean forest to the South Wales railway. The length is 215/8 miles; with a branch of ½ a mile at Dixton. Its own company had not means to carry it out; and the West Midland-company undertook it in 1861, and carried it eventually to completion: and now it is part of the Great Western system.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a railway" (ADL Feature Type: "railroad features") |
| Administrative units: | Gloucestershire Ancient County Monmouthshire Ancient County |
| Place: | Coleford |
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