BW157/9
Monmouthshire and Brecon Canals (Canal Numbers 95 and 95A)
Date
1795-1983
Reference code
BW157/9
Administrative / Biographical history
The Monmouthshire Canal Company, having become the Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company in 1849, was taken over by the GWR in 1880. After this date canal traffic declined very quickly. Market boats had regularly run between Newport and Brecon and Crumlin and the last market boat left Llanarth Street, Newport on 9 January 1915. All traffic on the Crumlin line ceased in 1930 and there was no traffic on the main line after 1938.
The canal began to be closed down in 1930 in Newport; the Crumlin Branch was closed by BTC in 1949 and the main line in 1954 and 1962.
The canal was nationalised under the British Transport Commission: Railway Executive (Western Region) from 1 January 1948. The Monmouthshire & Breconshire canal was then transferred to the British Transport Commission: Docks & Inland Waterways Executive on 19 June 1949.