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The existing main line station dates from the opening of the Newtown and Machynlleth Railway in 1863. The following year, the Aberystwith and Welsh Coast Railway opened the line as far as Aberystwyth, via Dovey Junction; in 1867, the line was extended from Barmouth to Pwllheli, via Porthmadog (then Portmadoc). In 1868, the station and lines ...
The station building was poorly built and too small for the expanding passenger traffic on the railway. [2] In the early 1900s, the Corris planned to replace it with a new much larger building. After swapping land with the Cambrian Railways, the original station was demolished in 1906 and replaced with a new much larger building which opened in ...
The stable building that still remains at the end of Brickfield Street The tramroad to Machynlleth Town station passed under the Cambrian Railways in the bricked-up arch on the right. Machynlleth Town was a station on the Corris Railway in Wales. It was the original passenger and goods station for the town of Machynlleth. It was opened around ...
Machynlleth Station about 1885. In the mid 1850s the railway map of central Wales was still blank. The South Wales Railway opened progressively from 1850; it was in a tense alliance with the Great Western Railway, and ran along the south coast; there were several early mineral lines near its route.
The station was built by the Newtown and Machynlleth Railway of the Cambrian Railways in the 1863. Originally there was a passing loop, a goods shed, a water tower and a ticket office and a signal box - the latter remained in use until March 2011 as a gate box to supervise the station level crossing (this is now operated from Machynlleth).
The village was named in English after the now-closed Cemmes Road station on the Newtown and Machynlleth Railway, now part of the Cambrian Line. Cemmes Road was also the junction with the Mawddwy Railway. The Welsh name for the village, and for the community, is Glantwymyn (English: The Twymyn Riverside), as it lies on the River Twymyn.
The box was dismantled and moved to a heritage railway shortly after the photo was taken. Cemmes Road was a railway station on the Newtown and Machynlleth Railway (N&MR) in Mid-Wales, serving the village of Cemmaes Road. The N&MR passed through the Cambrian Mountains in the deep Talerddig cutting, which formed the summit of the line.
Moat Lane Junction was a railway junction in Montgomeryshire near to the village of Caersws in mid-Wales. It was the junction where the Newtown and Machynlleth Railway opened in 1863 diverged from the Llanidloes and Newtown Railway which opened four years earlier. Although having only three through platforms, by rural standards it was a busy ...