“Amazing Mountain Walking by Train” in the South Wales Valleys
Bristol-based travel writer Steve Melia has published a website with over 100 walks by public transport starting in Bristol, including 20 (and growing) in the South Wales valleys. Maps, descriptions, photographs and gpx files (to follow on a mapping app) can all be found on his website: www.greentravelwriter.co.uk/bristol . He is urging walkers looking for mountain walks, to try using the trains through the valleys. Steve began recording his walks and putting them on his website and on Facebook two years ago. Last year, he set up Railwalks.co.uk – a national organisation which aims to encourage walking by rail. Following coverage in the Guardian , it now has 3000 members. Greentravelwriter.co.uk is one of 60 websites listed on www.railwalks.co.uk , with information about walks from and between railway stations in each region and nation of Britain, including five in Wales . Steve said: “Of all the places I have been walking by rail, the South Wales ...