Aberedw railway station explained

Aberedw
Status:Disused
Borough:Aberedw, Powys
Country:Wales
Coordinates:52.1187°N -3.3518°W
Grid Name:Grid reference
Platforms:1
Original:Mid Wales Railway
Pregroup:Cambrian Railways
Postgroup:Great Western Railway
Years:1867
Events:Opened[1]
Years1:31 December 1962
Events1:Closed

Aberedw railway station served the village of Aberedw in Powys, Wales. Aberedw Castle was demolished to build the station and some of the stone from the castle was used as track ballast.[2]

History

Opened by the Mid Wales Railway, then operated by the Cambrian Railways, it became part of the Great Western Railway. Passing on to the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948, it was then closed by the British Transport Commission.

Author Shaun Sewell quotes a diarist as writing about the station, in 1877, that the reader should "Please imagine a wooden hut about 12 feet long ... divided by a partition ... and he will have a very good idea of Aberedw Railway Station".[3]

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Further reading

Notes and References

  1. Railway Passenger Stations by M.Quick page 41
  2. Web site: Castle Preservation: Vanished Castles. Castles of Britain. https://web.archive.org/web/20070616121730/http://www.castles-of-britain.com/castlepu.htm. 16 June 2007.
  3. Book: Scott, Ronnie . Three Men and a Bradshaw . Random House . 302–3 .