THIS week we have chosen photographs from the digital archives of Pontypool Museum looking back at methods of transportation in Torfaen.

With its industrial heritage remaining one of the cornerstones of the borough’s history, the area has benefitted for transports link for centuries, either to move goods or allow people to attend their places of work.

Although the road infrastructure was far from ideal, buses began to spring up as a convenient and quick way of transporting people from one place to another.

In one of the photos is a bus which travelled between Blaenavon and Brynmawr along the Garn Road, which is more commonly known as the B4246.

Trains were another well-used transportation service and until the Beeching Axe in the 1960s, Torfaen was home to a number of stations and lines.

The other image shows the Abersychan Low Level station, which opened in 1854 as just 'Abersychan' before a second station - Abersychan and Talywain - opened in 1878.

Abersychan Low Level was closed in 1962.

These images were donated by the Pontypool Museum as part of its digital archive, which aims to preserve historic documents, images and records from the area.

To find out more about the digital archive, contact the museum at pontypoolmuseum@hotmail.co.uk or call 01495 752036.

The Free Press thanks Pontypool Museum for allowing the paper to use these images.