Swansea Vale Railway Society The Tram road was essentially a road of cast iron plates on stone sleeper blocks. Motive power was provided by Horses and Oxen, although from 1819 there is evidence that a George Stephenson Locomotive was employed from time to time. The Tram road eventually passed into the hands of Charles Henry Smith, a local Colliery owner, who used his own steam locomotives on the line, which would normally be used at his Loco Works in Llansamlet. In 1845 the Swansea Vale Railway Company was formed to rebuild the line as a 'modern railway', and extend it north into the Swansea Valley, to serve new collieries and metal works, and south to the developing port of Swansea, which by this time was experiencing an increase in trade. Today, more than 180 years after Scott's Tram road was constructed, another mile of track is being re-laid into the former Upper Bank station, once again the sight and sound of Steam is part of the Swansea Valley, and is a nostalgic reminder of this once busy and Historic railway. United Kingdom

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