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Pages in category "Beeching closures in Wales" The following 157 pages are in this category, out of 157 total. ... Caradog Falls Halt railway station; Carnarvonshire ...
See also Railway lines in Wales for open lines and Heritage railways in Wales for preserved lines Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
The Welsh railway system is split into three detached parts: The South Wales network, consisting of the South Wales Main Line, the West Wales lines and their complex network of associated branches, including the Valley Lines, the Cambrian Line serving mid-Wales, and in North Wales, the North Wales Coast Line and its associated branches.
Llanharan railway station serves the village of Llanharan in south Wales. Funded in part by SEWTA and at a cost of £4.3 million, [ 1 ] it opened in December 2007. [ 2 ] It is 183 miles 72 chains (296.0 km) from the zero point at London Paddington , measured via Stroud.
The Beeching cuts were a reduction in the size of the British railway network, along with a restructuring of British Rail, in the 1960s. Since the mid-1990s there has been significant growth in passenger numbers on the railways and renewed government interest in the role of rail in UK transport.
In particular, the railway system must be modelled to meet current needs, and the modernisation plan must be adapted to this new shape" [20] and with the premise that the railways should be run as a profitable business. [21] Beeching first studied traffic flows on all lines to identify "the good, the bad, and the indifferent". [22]
Historically, the line was the Taff Vale Railway (TVR), the first rail development in the Valleys in the 1840s. It was associated with the notorious Taff Vale Judgment in 1901, when the courts penalised trade unions for losses caused by strikes. The Aberdare line was closed in 1964 under the Beeching Axe. The line was reopened in 1988, in an ...
In 1867 the Manchester and Milford Railway (M&MR) opened the railway from Pencader to Aberystwyth. [2] however in 1906 the Great Western Railway took over the line and added a halt at Pencarreg in 1930. [1] The halt became part of British Railways upon nationalisation in 1948 but was closed in 1965. [1]