The Wye Valley Railway, a single track running from Chepstow to Monmouth through Tintern and St Braviel’s, passes through some of Britain’s most beautiful countryside. Opened in 1876 and closed in 1964 its 14.5 miles of track, two tunnels, four stations, eight halts, two viaducts and three river crossings are now, for the most part, derelict.

The Line’s heyday was in the 1920s and 30s when rambler’s trains provided cheap day excursions for walkers from the Midlands and industrial south Wales but, after the Second World War, the advent of the motor car meant that fewer people used the railways and the line became unprofitable.