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An album of postcards from northern France. Most are postally unused.

Llythyr, 28 Rhagfyr 1917, oddi wrth D. J. Williams, Rhydcymerau, at gyd-heddychwr, Tom Llewelyn Thomas, Birchgrove, Abertawe, yn cyfeirio at heddychaeth gyfoes ac at lyfryn Love of Country (1917) o waith y derbynydd. = Letter, 28 December 1917, from D. J. Williams, Rhydcymerau, to fellow pacifist Tom Llewelyn Thomas, Birchgrove, Swansea, concerning contemporary pacifism and the recipient's pamphlet, Love of Country (1917).

Archive of the Cambrian Coast Line Action Group comprising papers created and collected during the campaign to prevent the closure of the Cambrian Coast railway line between machynlleth and Pwllheli and to improve services an the line along with the archive of the Welsh Railways Action Group, formed in 1971 to co-ordinate between various railway campaigns in wales and to campaign for improvements to the Welsh railway network as a whole and papers and publications relating to local rail campaign groups in west Wales, along the Heart of Wales line and in the Wrexham area.

Leaflets, posters and pamphlets, mostly published by the Cambrian Coast Line Action Group to publicise the campaign and encourage people to use the railway. it also includes copies of timetable and publicity leaflets published by British Rail, some publicity leaflets for heritage railways and booklets produced for passengers on special train along the line.

Papers of the Welsh Railways Action group including minutes, correspondence, newspaper cuttings, publicity material, submissions to consultations and policy documents relating to the core campaign to retain, improve and expand the railway network in Wales as well as papers relating to various local campaigns on specific routes and stations. The series includes correspondence with government departments, members of parliament, local authorities, British Rail and supportive individuals as well well detailed plans for new and improved rail services and media coverage of the campaign.

Book containing handwritten minutes of the Welsh Railway Action Group along with stuck in newspaper cuttings and 2 copies of the WRAC manifesto leaflet.

Newspaper cuttings of articles relating to rail services in Wales and statements made by the Welsh Railway Action Group.

Scrap book containing newspaper clippings reporting on WRAG campaigns and responses to news stories on railway services in Wales along with a small number of photographs.

Copies of leaflets produced by the Welsh Railway Action Group to promote the organisation, a leaflet for the Rail Development Society, a train timetable for the North Wales Coast Line dated 1 June 1981 and a Buckley area bus timetable dated 13 July 1981.

Papers relating to the Wrexham to Bidston railway line including an issue of the newsletter of the Birkenhead Rail Users' Association, "Borderline", the first issue of the Wrexham-Bidston Rail Users' Association bulletin, a submission by the Wrexham-Birkenhead Rail Users' Association to Cheshire County Council's transport plan relating to the line, a timetable valid until 11 May 1980 and correspondence between John Rogers as a Plaid Cymru prospective Parliamentary candidate and Merseyside Passenger Transport Executive, Clwyd County Council and British Rail regarding service levels and funding for the line.

Papers relating to the Heart of Wales Line railway (otherwise known as the Central Wales Line) between Swansea and Shrewsbury including newspaper clippings, correspondence with Breconshire County Council and British Rail regarding the use of the line, the change of status to a light railway, a timetable, a policy statement by British Rail on the line dated May 1982correspondence with the Heart of Wales Line Travellers' Association, 2 agendas and minutes for meetings held in 1982 and copies of the Heart of Wales Line Travellers' Association newsletters dated June and September 1982.

Papers and correspondence created or collected by the Welsh Railway Action Group in the course of campaigning including the WRAG manifesto , WRAG response to Department of the Environment consultation on transport policy in 1976, arrangements for meetings, minutes, correspondence with Members of Parliament and Government Ministers, Mervyn Matthews' plan for British Rail reorganisation, correspondence with local railway campaigns, papers relating to campaigns for stations in Cowbridge, St Clears, Maesteg and other areas, retention of the Teifi Valley railway line, improvements to the Central Wales line, services between south and north Wales, papers on the Wrexham to Bidston line, the Bangor to Amlwch line and the Conwy Valley line, press releases, railway electrification and, Plaid Cymru policy papers on transport.

Copies of the Cambrian Coast Line Action group newsletters titled "Bulletin/Bwletin" and "Cambrian Coast Express".

Publications produced or collected by the Cambrian Coast Line Action Group related to the campaign against the closure of the line and special trains along the line:"Rheilffordd y Cambrian = The Cambrian Line" by John D Rogers (1975), "Great Wales Rail A Route Guide to the scenic rail routes of mid Wales - Cambrian, Cambrian Coast, Conwy Valley, Heart of Wales" published by CCLAG in 1983, "Cambrian Coast Express - An illustrated route description and history of the Cambrian Rail Routes and associated lines" published by Wirral Railway Circle, 1973 in conjunction with special trains on the Cambrian and "Isle of Wight Railways Report of Inquiry held in London June 1953" reprinted by the Railway Development Society which considered misleading figures relating to railways on the Isle of Wight.

Correspondence and papers relating to the campaign against the closure of the line including correspondence relating to publishing leaflets and the CCLAG bulletin, the groups constitution, correspondence with British Rail regarding services on the line, correspondence with Gwynedd County Council, correspondence with the Department for Transport and British Rail regarding the timetable, correspondence regarding buildings along the line, correspondence with railway unions, a file of papers and a proposal for summer serices along the line drafted by Dr J. K. Cannell of the Open University.

Various papers and publications relating to the finances of railway services in general and the Cambrian Coast line in particular including a 1967 Ministry of Transport paper "Railway Policy" Cmnd 3439, a programme for the Plaid Cymru 1972 conference, a pamphlet entitled "The Economics of the Cambrian Coast Line" by K. Richards, reprinted from the Journal of Transport Economics and Policy which is a critical analysis of the cost-benefit study of the line by the Ministry of Transport, correspondence and statistics relating to the Whitland - Pembroke Dock railway line an the closure of the Carmarthen - Newcastle Emlyn - Lampeter railway in 1972, and the West Wales Railway Action Committee, correspondence with the Welsh Office, British Rail, Department of the Environment, Members of Parliament, the National Union of Railwaymen (NUR),copies af articles and detailed costs and statistics relating to the Cambrian Coast Line.

The series comprises publications of the Cambrian Coast Line Action Group including newsletters, books on the Cambrian Coast line and publicity material as well as collected publications by other organisations including railway societies and British Rail marketing and timetable publications relating to the Cambrian Coast Line.

Correspondence and papers relating to the campaign against the closure of the line including correspondence with HTV regarding a television programme, the re-launch of the group in 1995, meetings with Gwynedd County Council the 1980s, the Gwynedd Public Transport Plan 1985-86, correspondence regarding services on the line, suggestions for improved services and an Impact Report by Gwynedd County Council.