BR 80097 enters Swansea Bay Station 1963 by John Wiltshire
Classic South Wales shot on a sunny May day in 1963. The local had left Swansea Victoria LMS station westbound to run along the seafront for a few miles where it turns north and climbs up the Clyne Valley. Behind the hoardings on the road  would have run the Mumbles trams parallel with the railway. The trams would have finished three yeras earlier in 1960 when this shot was taken.  The photographer is standing on the steps of the large girder bridge that was a local landmark here giving people access to the beach crossing over road, tramlines and railway.

Sadly its all gone now bulldozed for a new road scheme, part of the railway is a small cycletrack. I might be on that beach aged 2 !
