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The former permits passage of a transportation route alongside of, or around a hill, where the slope is transverse to the roadway or the railway. A sidehill cut can be formed by means of sidecasting, i.e., cutting on the high side balanced by moving the material to build up the low side to achieve a flat surface for the route.
Another company, the Aberystwyth and Welsh Coast Railway, built the line connecting Machynlleth to Aberystwyth, and also to Porthmadog and Pwllheli, and the Newtown and Machynlleth Railway company itself was incorporated into the Cambrian Railways company in 1864. Its line became the main access route for Aberystwyth and the coast, and remains ...
The Cambrian Railways Company was created on 25 July 1864 when the Cambrian Railways Act 1864 (27 & 28 Vict. c. cclxii) received royal assent.The company was formed by amalgamating most of the railway companies in mid Wales: the Oswestry and Newtown Railway, the Llanidloes and Newtown Railway, the Newtown and Machynlleth Railway and the Oswestry, Ellesmere and Whitchurch Railway.
The planned network of the A&WCR. The first main line railway [note 2] in central Wales, the Llanidloes and Newtown Railway, was opened in 1859. [1] At first it was not connected to any other railway, but it fostered interest in railway development, and soon, through routes to Newtown from both Chester (opened 1861) [2] and from Shrewsbury (opened 1862) [3] were available.
On 3 January 1863, the standard gauge Newtown and Machynlleth Railway had opened, followed on 1 July of the same year by the Aberystwith and Welsh Coast Railway's (A&WCR) line from Machynlleth to Borth. These two lines became part of the Cambrian Railways by August 1865. The opening of the standard gauge line to Borth made the section of the CM ...
Oswestry and Newtown Railway 30 miles: incorporated 6 June 1855; opened 1860-1; Llanidloes and Newtown Railway 12 + 1 ⁄ 4 miles: 4 August 1853; 1859. Until 1861 this section of the line was completely isolated; Newtown and Machynlleth Railway 23 miles: 27 July 1857; 1863; Oswestry, Ellesmere and Whitchurch Railway 18 miles: 1 August 1861; 1863-4
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Colin Gordon Maggs (born 1932) [1] is a railway historian and the author of more than 100 books about British railways, particularly those in the southwest of England.He has also written many newspaper and magazine articles about them and made several TV appearances and radio broadcasts on the subject.