Merthyr

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Merthyr

  1. Short for Merthyr Tydfil.
    • 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 51:
      After petrol rationing ended in 1952, the BTC was aware that more swingeing cuts had to be made, and a sinister message was conveyed by the loss of the meandering 38-mile route from Blisworth to Stratford-upon-Avon in April 1952, and the 25-mile Abergavenny-Merthyr Heads of the Valleys line in January 1958.
  2. A small settlement in Newchurch and Merthyr community, Carmarthenshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN3520). [1]

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