“I have lovely memories of travelling on the train during the 1950s with my parents,it really did rock and roll,allways had and intrest and have been lucky enough to be able to aquire a few artifacts,including a blueprint of the 1929 electric double deck tramcars,and two complete sets of reversible seats and thier cast frames from the earlier tramcars, I hope one day in the not to distant future that that it could be brought back as a light railway or even a monorail system,having seen the intrduction of the bendybus,[and we have to give it a chance] from what I have seen they are running virtually empty during the none peek times,and I am sorry to say they are not going to last,I am pretty sure that Swansea will get a light railway system and there is no better place to start than the Mumbles to Swansea route, as about 80% of the old route is still there.”

“For children during the 1950's on Summer Sundays, it was a treat to be taken, by parents, for a trip to Mumbles Pier on the Mumbles Train. It was an even bigger treat to board the paddle steamers ("Cardiff Queen" & "Bristol Queen") that left Mumbles Pier for day trips to Ilfracombe and Lundy Island.
Adults enjoyed the paddle boat cruises on Sundays because, although the pubs were "dry", the bars on the steamers were open!
There is a DVD available entitled: "The Swansea And Mumbles Railway."”

“I remember the Mumbles Tram
as it was called and used to ride on it when I was a kid. I also
have some framed black and white pictures, made from cloth and plastic.”

“I don¿t remember the Mumbles Railway sadly as I was born after the closure. However I so wish I could have experienced the journey that Nick so vividly describes. Its closure certainly was one of the worst acts of civic vandalism in Wales!

I do remember well though Wyn Thomas¿s fantastic radio drama/documentary for Swansea Sound in the early 1980¿s called a Rock & Roll to Paradise. It led to the publication of Rob Gittin¿s great book to go with it ( a copy of which I still have) . Some readers may also remember the visual presentation of the documentary that followed at the Dylan Thomas Theatre at around the same time ¿ I was fortunate to attend this.

However nothing would have matched a ride on the train. BBC Wales did a great job on the 5th January on both TV and radio of marking the 50th anniversary of the closure. The archive footage of the train trundling along the foreshore was just priceless!”

“I was only 5 when the Mumbles Railway closed but can remember vividly trundling along Mumbles Road sometimes to Oystermouth with my parents and now deceased Aunt and Uncle. My Aunt always found the trip very amusing as it was a very rocky ride and seeing my uncle in his suit rocking with the train would reduce her to tears of laughter! In the summer there were nearly always two trains coupled together and I seem to remember that there were two conductors to a train one on the lower deck an one on the upper. The seats were able to be turned araound so if there were four of you two could sit forward facing and two backwards. The seats were quite hard and in the summer the trains were packed to capacity. Oystermouth was very lively and we would stop there for a treat an ice cream soda in the beautiful corner Fortes. I don't think I ever forgave the then Swansea Borough Council for not taking the opportunity to buy the railway from the South Wales Transport who owned it I have a picture on my wall which reminds me of how things were. Such a shame to see what could have been a massive tourist boost for Swansea going to waste and the end of an unique railway”