Trawscoed railway station

Trawscoed railway station
Location
Place Trawsgoed
Area Ceredigion
Coordinates 52°20′06″N 3°57′33″W / 52.3351°N 3.9591°W / 52.3351; -3.9591Coordinates: 52°20′06″N 3°57′33″W / 52.3351°N 3.9591°W / 52.3351; -3.9591
Grid reference SN666725
Operations
Original company Manchester and Milford Railway
Pre-grouping Great Western Railway
Platforms 1
History
12 August 1867[1] Opened
14 December 1964[1] Closed
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain
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Trawscoed railway station[2] was located on the Carmarthen to Aberystwyth Line (originally called the Manchester and Milford Railway before being transferred to the GWR). The station had a signal box on the single platform, a weighing machine, several sidings, and a corrugated iron waiting room and ticket office combined. The estate of Trawsgoed is located nearby.

History

The station opened in August 1867 to serve Trawsgoed Estate. The station closed in December 1964 when services were truncated at Strata Florida, following flood damage to the line at Llanilar. Formal closure was confirmed two months later. In 2001 the station building and platform survived in alternative use,[2] but collapsed in 2006.

Remains of an old railway bridge near Trawscoed

On the night of Sunday 7 August 1955, the royal train was stabled here overnight when it was routed over the Manchester and Milford en route to the opening of an extension to the National Library of Wales on 8 August.[3]

The station building was used as a coal merchants office after the line closed.[4]

References

Notes
  1. 1 2 Butt 1995, p. 233.
  2. 1 2 RCAHMW Retrieved : 2012-09-25
  3. Details of Trawscoed Station
  4. Google Forum Retrieved : 2012-09-25
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Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Caradog Falls   Great Western Railway
Carmarthen to Aberystwyth Line
  Felindyffryn Halt

Carmarthen-Aberystwyth Line

Legend
Aberystwyth
Vale of Rheidol Railway

Cambrian Line
to Machynlleth and Shrewsbury

Llanrhystyd Road

Vale of Rheidol Railway
(narrow gauge)

Llanilar
Mid Wales Railway
to Shrewsbury

Felindyffryn Halt
Llanidloes
Trawscoed
Mid Wales Railway
to Builth

Caradog Falls Halt

Llangurig branch
(never saw use)

Strata Florida
(Ystrad Fflur)

unbuilt connection
(15 miles)

Alltddu Halt
Tregaron
Pont Llanio
Olmarch Halt
Llangybi
Newcastle Emlyn
Derry Ormond
Pontgoch

Aberaeron branch
Teifi Valley Railway
(narrow gauge)

Lampeter
Henllan

Llanybydder
Pentrecourt Platform
Maesycrugiau
Llandyssul

Bryn Teifi
Pencader
Pencader Tunnel
985 yd 
901 m 

Llanpumpsaint
Conwil
Danycoed Halt
Llwyfan Cerrig
Gwili Railway
Bronwydd Arms
Abergwili Junction
Heart of Wales Line
River Gwili
Carmarthen
West Wales Line
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