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Cefn-coed Viaduct

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Cefn-coed Viaduct

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Location: Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales, Wales, United Kingdom

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Andy Lewis MTB 🇬🇧

August 13, 2024

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The Cefn-coed Viaduct is the third-largest viaduct in Wales. This huge, curved structure once carried the Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway and is now part of the Taff Trail, which is Route 8 of the National Cycle Network that runs between Cardiff and Brecon. It offers walkers and cyclists a superb view of the Taf Fawr as it cascades over the many weirs in the valley

Andy Lewis MTB 🇬🇧

August 13, 2024

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Cefn-coed Viaduct was built in 1866 and is 770 ft (235 m) long and 120 ft (36.6 m) high. It is a rusticated-limestone structure of fifteen arches, set on a curve. The tall, slender piers and parapets are constructed with coursed irregular sized rock-faced limestone blocks

Andy Bryant

October 14, 2024

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you must stop to take in the views and structure 👌

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Elevation 280 m

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Location: Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales, Wales, United Kingdom

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