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°WCoordinates: 52°20′06″N 3°57′33″W / 52.3351°N 3.9591°W
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
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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. Butt 1995, p. 233.
2. RCAHMW Retrieved : 2012-09-25
3. Details of Trawscoed Station
4. Google Forum Retrieved : 2012-09-25

Sources

• Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.

Further reading

• Holden, J.S. (1979, revised 2nd edition 2007): The Manchester & Milford Railway, Oakwood Press, ISBN 978-0-85361-658-0

External links

• Video of Trawscoed Station
• Set of Trawscoed Station photographs
• Trawscoed Station
• The Ystwyth Cycle Route
• Station view in 2006

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Caradog Falls		Great Western Railway Carmarthen to Aberystwyth Line		Felindyffryn Halt

Carmarthen-Aberystwyth Line
Aberystwyth Cambrian Line to Machynlleth & 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 (24 km) 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 Carmarthen Town River Gwili Carmarthen West Wales Line