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20-606: Croespenmaen is a locality near Crumlin, Caerphilly , Wales. The nearby Croespenmaen Industrial Estate is the site of Unilever 's Pot Noodle factory, which became the topic of a 2006 advertising campaign, showing fictitious Pot Noodle mines in Wales. The factory typically produces 155 million pots annually. Croespenmaen is also the site of the Brace's Bakery factory. 51°40′48″N 3°09′52″W  /  51.6799°N 3.1644°W  / 51.6799; -3.1644 This article about

40-671: A 17-span bridge in Pernambuco , Brazil, and bridges in New Ross , Ireland, the Murray River , Australia and Wolkoff for the Great Russian Railway. The Navigation Colliery was in Crumlin. The sinking of mine shafts began in 1907, and it opened fully in 1911. The colliery produced 145,000 tonnes of coal annually at its peak, and it closed in 1967. Many colliery buildings remain preserved to

60-637: A location in Wales is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Crumlin, Caerphilly 51°40′47″N 3°08′12″W  /  51.6798°N 3.1368°W  / 51.6798; -3.1368 Crumlin ( Welsh : Crymlyn ) is a town, community and electoral ward in Caerphilly county borough in South Wales . It is situated in the Ebbw River valley, 5 miles (8 km) west of Pontypool , within

80-559: A sister school for part-time students at Crumlin Hall, which later became the Crumlin Mining and Technical College. Crumlin Hall was previously Thomas Kennard's home. A mosaic mural in the town centre by Kenneth and Oliver Budd depicts the history of the town and the Ebbw Valley. The viaduct is shown running along the top of a number of the panels. Crumlin is the base for Brace's Bakery ,

100-502: A third-generation owned family bakery. In the 1980s, Marcheast Ltd. made the Land Master , a four-wheel drive vehicle, at Crumlin. Conway Stewart , the pen manufacturer, moved to Crumlin in 1968, but the plant was closed in 1975. Crumlin is home to the popular snack, Pot Noodle . As of 2006 it appeared in a series of TV adverts for the product. The main manufacturing plant, offices and distribution centre are situated there. Crumlin

120-501: Is a Grade II listed structure . At the southern end of the bridge was Blackfriars Bridge railway station which opened in 1864 before closing to passengers in 1885 following the opening of what is today the main Blackfriars station. Blackfriars Bridge railway station continued as a goods stop until 1964 when it was completely demolished, and much of it redeveloped into offices. The second bridge, built slightly further downstream (to

140-561: Is a railway bridge crossing the River Thames in London , between Blackfriars Bridge and the Millennium Bridge . There have been two structures with the name. The first bridge was opened in 1864 and was designed by Joseph Cubitt for the London, Chatham and Dover Railway . Massive abutments at each end carried the railway's insignia, preserved and restored on the south side . Following

160-723: Is home to rugby union club, Crumlin RFC ; the team is a member of the Welsh Rugby Union and was founded in 1880. Crumlin Cricket Club is a member of the Welsh Cricket Association . Crumlin is represented in Caerphilly County Borough Council as a two-member ward. The current councillors are Carl Thomas (Labour) and Kristian Woodland (Labour). Blackfriars Railway Bridge Blackfriars Railway Bridge

180-823: Is no longer in evidence, as it was filled in the late 1960s for the construction of the A467 road. The Crumlin Viaduct Works Company Limited produced the ironwork for the Crumlin Viaduct. They also produced the ironwork for the first Blackfriars Railway Bridge for the London, Chatham and Dover Railway , 120 bridges in Buenos Aires , Argentina, 69 bridges for the Rome and Ancona Railway in Italy, 5 multi-span bridges for railways in India,

200-466: The Beeching cuts . Plans for preserving the viaduct were discussed, but the poor state of repair made this impossible, and it was dismantled between 1966 and 1967. Even while demolition work was in progress, scenes for the film Arabesque , which starred Sophia Loren and Gregory Peck , were shot on it. As of 2019, the abutments remain visible on the valley sides. Crumlin was the northern terminus of

220-559: The Crumlin Arm of the Monmouthshire Canal . The canal was built from Crumlin southwards towards Newport, opening in 1794, but not completed at Fourteen Locks until 1799. Tramroads from the ironworks at Ebbw Vale and Nantyglo were built to the canal at Crumlin basin, where the iron was transhipped into canal boats. When the viaduct was built, the canal was shortened as one of the pillars needed to be located in its path. The canal

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240-507: The Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway . At 200 feet high and 550 yards in length in two spans (355 yards and 195 yards), it remained the highest railway viaduct in Great Britain throughout its working life. Nearby were the two Crumlin railway stations , at high (viaduct) and valley levels. The low level station closed in 1962, and the viaduct and high level station closed in 1964 under

260-576: The South Wales Coalfield and in the neighbouring quarries are often found fine fossils of calamites and lepidodendron ; and, in the shale outcrops, fossil ferns and other cryptogamic plants. Crumlin is famous for its former railway viaduct . Work by the designer and contractor Thomas W. Kennard commenced in autumn 1853, and the viaduct opened in June 1857 for the Taff Vale Extension to

280-493: The bridge to carry seven lines of railway which required extensions to the four piers. The bridge had a clear width of 81 ft between the parapets, increasing to 123 ft at the northernmost span to provide space for the platforms. The bridge had five spans, the shore span on the Surrey side being 183 ft, the centre span and Middlesex shore span 185 ft each, and the second and fourth spans 175 ft each. The lengths of

300-530: The east), was originally called St Paul's Railway Bridge and opened in 1886 together with a new station in Queen Victoria Street called St Paul's Station. The joint engineers for the works were William Mills, of the London, Chatham, and Dover Company, and John Wolfe Barry and Henry Marc Brunel . The resident engineer in charge of the construction was Edward Cruttwell . The bridge is made of wrought iron. It

320-532: The formation of the Southern Railway in 1924, inter-city and continental services were concentrated on Waterloo, and St Paul's Station became a local and suburban stop. For this reason, the use of the original bridge gradually declined. It eventually became too weak to support modern trains, and was therefore removed in 1985 – all that remains is a series of columns crossing the Thames and the southern abutment, which

340-434: The historic boundaries of Monmouthshire . The name is said to be derived from cromlech , a type of megalithic construction. Kelly's Directory of South Wales (1895) noted that Crumlin was "a secluded village, scarcely known to any beyond the few persons resident there". It considered Crumlin one of the most picturesque spots in the county, surrounded by natural features of "unsurpassed loveliness". The village sits in

360-579: The north of the town. The colliery site contains thirteen Grade II and II* listed buildings and is managed by the charity Glofa Navigation Cyf for the benefit of the community. The Mine Rescue Station was opened in Station Road, Crumlin in 1910 and closed in 1986. It was the first in the South Wales Coalfield. In 1914, the South Wales and Monmouthshire School of Mines at Treforest established

380-483: The three middle spans corresponded with those of the old bridge alongside for ease of navigation. When St Paul's railway station changed its name to Blackfriars in 1937 the name of the bridge was changed as well to Blackfriars Railway Bridge. As part of the Thameslink Programme , the platforms at Blackfriars station were extended across the Thames and partially supported by the 1864 bridge piers. The project

400-402: Was built by Lucas and Aird . The need for the second bridge was the lack of capacity and overcrowding at the first station which had become "in the highest degree dangerous". The directors of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway determined that they needed to double the lines across the Thames. The original design was for four rail lines but once work was underway it was decided to expand

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