Llanybydder railway station

Llanybydder railway station also Llanybyther railway station served the town of Llanybydder on the Carmarthen Aberystwyth Line in the Welsh counties of Carmarthenshire and extending into Ceredigion.

Llanybydder
General view of Llanybydder from the east showing the station, railway yards and houses c 1885
General information
LocationLlanybydder, Carmarthenshire
Wales
Coordinates52°04′42″N 4°09′03″W / 52.0782°N 4.1507°W / 52.0782; -4.1507
Grid referenceSN5270744394
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyManchester and Milford Railway
Pre-groupingGreat Western Railway
Key dates
1 January 1866[1]Opened
February 1965[1]Closed

History

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The Manchester and Milford Railway (M&MR) opened from Pencader to Aberystwyth on 12 August 1867.[2] The line went into receivership from 1875 to 1900.

The Great Western Railway took over the service in 1906, and fully absorbed the line in 1911. The Great Western Railway and the station passed on to British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. It was then closed by the British Railways Board. The OS maps and photographs show that it had two platforms, signal box, weighing machine, a sizeable goods shed and several associated sidings.[3]

Passenger services ran until flooding severely damaged the line south of Aberystwyth in December 1964. A limited passenger service continued running from Carmarthen to Strata Florida until February 1965.

The line remained open for milk traffic until 1973. The station buildings have been largely demolished and cleared and the site is used as a car park. The main station building and the adjacent goods shed survive; the former is a single-storey red-brick building with yellow-brick dressings, under a pitched slated roof and the latter a rubble-stone building under a pitched slated roof.[4]


Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Maesycrugiau   Great Western Railway
Carmarthen to Aberystwyth Line
  Lampeter

References

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Notes
  1. ^ a b Butt 1995, p. 147.
  2. ^ "Manchester and Milford Railway (91660)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 9 February 2012.
  3. ^ People's Collection Retrieved : 2012-09-21
  4. ^ "Llanybyther Railway Station, Llanybydder (34727)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 21 September 2012.
Sources
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Manchester and Milford Railway
Aberystwyth
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Llanrhystyd Road
 
 
Llanilar
 
 
 
Felindyffryn Halt
 
 
Llanidloes
Trawscoed
 
 
 
Caradog Falls Halt
 
 
 
 
 
 
Llangurig
 
 
 
 
unbuilt connection
15 miles (24 km)
Aberayron
 
 
 
 
Llanerch-Ayron Halt
 
 
Strata Florida
Crossways Halt
 
 
Alltddu Halt
Ciliau-Aeron Halt
 
 
Tregaron
Felin Fach
 
 
Pont Llanio
Talsarn Halt
 
 
Olmarch Halt
Blaenplwyf Halt
 
 
 
Llangybi
Silian Halt
 
 
 
 
Derry Ormond
Newcastle Emlyn
 
 
 
Pontgoch
 
 
 
Lampeter
 
 
 
Henllan
 
 
 
Pencarreg Halt
Alltycefn Tunnel
 
 
Llanybydder
Pentrecourt Platform
 
 
Maesycrugiau
Llandyssul
 
 
 
Bryn Teifi
Teifi Valley route
(Carmarthen & Cardigan Rly)
 
 
 
 
Pencader Junction
 
 
 
Pencader
 
Pencader Tunnel
985 yd
901 m
 
Llanpumpsaint
 
Conwil
Danycoed Halt
 
Llwyfan Cerrig
 
 
Bronwydd Arms
 
Abergwili Junction
 
 
 
Carmarthen Town
 
 
Carmarthen