Railways of Llanelli
200 years of history
March 2006
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Loco Sheds
The Llanelly & Mynydd Mawr’s first shed was near Cille Colliery in Furnace inherited from the Carmarthenshire Tramroad. A new one was built at Sandy (rebuilt 1913) where the main sidings were located. After the Grouping the GWR used the shed until July 1946.
The main GWR shed was near their dock. It was two-road building that was outgrown by increasing traffic. A new two-turntable roundhouse was built nearby, in Machynis, in 1925. The older shed closed on 31 March. The turntables were 65ft in diameter and in the years before closure one was used for diesels and the other for the remaining steam. This building was identified in BR days as 87f. Under GWR its code was LLY.
The Burry Port & Gwendraeth valley Railway had a shed in the dock area of Burry Port. This became a sub-shed of Llanelli (along with Pantyffynnon).
Llanelli’s facilities closed on 1st November 1965 by which time there few allocations left. The closure coincided with the withdrawal of steam from West Wales.