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:
“There is something to be said for jealousy, because it only designs the preservation of some good which we either have or think we have a right to. But envy is a raging madness that cannot bear the wealth or fortune of others.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“If there is ANY THING which it is the duty of the WHOLE PEOPLE to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity, of their own liberties, and institutions.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“The reason why men enter into society, is the preservation of their property; and the end why they choose and authorize a legislative, is, that there may be laws made, and rules set, as guards and fences to the properties of all the members of the society: to limit the power, and moderate the dominion, of every part and member of the society.”
—John Locke (1632–1704)