- Opens first page of new book - Immediately starts crying

@GunnerTas @Elliot_Conway1 Pits? Steel?

@GunnerTas @Elliot_Conway1 Peak times of the coal trade in South Wales I’d imagine.

@GunnerTas @Elliot_Conway1 Coal

@GunnerTas @Elliot_Conway1 coal probably

@GunnerTas @Elliot_Conway1 England used natural resources stolen from Wales to fuel their theft of natural resources around the world

@GunnerTas @Elliot_Conway1 Coal.

@GunnerTas @Elliot_Conway1 Coal

@GunnerTas @Elliot_Conway1 Transporting coal to the largest coal exporting docks in the world...at the time...

@GunnerTas @Elliot_Conway1 As other responses said, coal, but also those are the valleys. They are deep valleys full of coal mines, and each one needed its own railway.

@GunnerTas @Elliot_Conway1 Valleys girls wanting to meet Bristol boys

@GunnerTas @Elliot_Conway1 Coal. The topography of the valleys made it easier/cheaper to build several north-south lines than have east-west branch lines feeding into a main route south

@GunnerTas @Elliot_Conway1 The Welsh Valleys..