Cilfynydd is a village in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, a mile from the South Wales Valleys town of Pontypridd, and 13 miles north of the capital city, Cardiff. The Albion Steam Coal Co. began sinking a coal mine in 1884 at Ynyscaedudwg Farm. The Albion Colliery opened in August 1887, served by the Llancaiach Branch line of the Taff Vale Railway. Albion was the scene of the second worst disaster in the South Wales Coalfield, after the later disaster at the Universal Colliery at Senghenydd in 1913 (439 men are killed). Massive explosion caused by the ignition of coal dust following an explosion of firedamp killed 290 men and boys. Almost everyone in the community lost someone in the disaster.
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