You may not know this, but before there was a railway tunnel under the River Severn and long before anyone thought of building road bridges above it, there was a passenger ferry service that ran between Black Rock on the Welsh side to New Passage on the English side, carrying passengers, cattle and iron ore. The Black Rock ferry also pre-dates the Aust ferry.
In 1863, the Bristol & South Wales Union Railway built a branch from the main line to Black Rock. Trains would travel out onto a wooden pier, where the passengers would get off before climbing aboard the ferries.
Very little exists of the pier now, but it was sited here.
From the foreshore it is possible to examine the base of one of the remaining piles and as you can see, the Second Severn Crossing is only a short distance downstream.
Munzly
These things are too easily forgotten, and it's nice that someone remembers them.
Interesting.