Preservation
With the assistance of Swansea city council, the Swansea Valley Railway Society, based in Pentrechwyth, leased the last remaining section of intact track between Upper Bank (close to Morfa industrial estate) and Six Pit (now renamed Nantyffin Road). But in 2007 the council took the decision to redevelop the area and declined to renew the lease, because the dilapidated state of the railway, and the value in what was now prime development land as the city expanded. In 2009 Swansea Valley Railway Society negotiated a merger with the Gwili Railway in Carmarthen, and moved most of their stock and rail there.
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Famous quotes containing the word preservation:
“Men are not therefore put to death, or punished for that their theft proceedeth from election; but because it was noxious and contrary to men’s preservation, and the punishment conducing to the preservation of the rest, inasmuch as to punish those that do voluntary hurt, and none else, frameth and maketh men’s wills such as men would have them.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688)
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