- The Pont-y-
Cafnau (Welsh for 'bridge of troughs';
sometimes written Pont y
Cafnau or Pontycafnau), is a 14.2-metre (47 ft) long iron
truss bridge over...
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confluence of the Taf Fawr and Taf Fechan, the
river is
crossed by the Pont-y-
Cafnau tramroad bridge. This was
probably the
first iron
railway bridge to be built...
- many side-by-side
trusses depending on the size of the structure. Pont-y-
Cafnau, the world's
first iron
railway bridge, is of the king post type. King posts...
- 1806.
During this
period Watkin George also
constructed or
designed Pont-y-
Cafnau (1792-93 - an iron
tramway bridge and aqueduct),
Gwynne water aqueduct (1793-96...
-
Melingriffith Water Pump
Conservation Area
which was
designated in 1975. Pont-y-
Cafnau – an iron
bridge designed by
Watkin George Williams 1992, p. 118. Williams...
- Act (Gilbert's Act)". workhouses.org.uk.
Retrieved 4
March 2019. "Pont-y-
cafnau,
Merthyr Tydfil (34860)". Coflein. RCAHMW.
Retrieved 29
September 2021....
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Since 1980 List of
places in
Merthyr Tydfil - a list of
settlements Pont-y-
Cafnau - the world's
earliest surviving iron
railway bridge "Council". Merthyr...
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September 2021. Cadw. "Pont-y-
Cafnau (11408)".
National Historic ****ets of Wales.
Retrieved 10
September 2021. "Pont-y-
Cafnau".
British Listed Buildings...
- Penrhyndeudraeth,
Gwynedd 2014
Concrete Crosses the
River Dwyryd Pont-y-
Cafnau Merthyr Tydfil,
Wales 14 m (46 ft) 1793 Iron
First iron
bridge to carry...
- West
Wales Metro. The world's
oldest known iron
railway bridge, Pont-y-
Cafnau was
designed and
built in 1793. On 21
February 1804 the
first recorded steam-hauled...
