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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 1860, and last used just before 1878. The station was not named; "Machynlleth Town" is used to distinguish it from the later Machynlleth station. [1]
Download as PDF; Printable version ... Created as part of the Newtown and Machynlleth Railway, with a depth of 120 feet (37 m), it was the deepest cutting in the ...
Machynlleth was a station on the Corris Railway in Merioneth (now Gwynedd), Wales. It was opened in 1863 as a pair of wharves for the transshipment of slate onto the Newtown and Machynlleth Railway. In 1878, it was opened to passenger traffic, replacing the earlier Machynlleth Town, and was adjacent to the standard gauge station of the same ...
Machynlleth station, circa 1885, then on the Newtown and Machynlleth Railway Eastbound local train in 1951. The lower yard of the station contained a number of sidings that served transshipment wharves connected to the Corris Railway. The first wharf was built in 1863 and leased by the Aberllefenni and Ratgoed quarries. The rest of the quarries ...
A solicitor based there, named David Howell, made energetic moves to form a railway scheme, beginning with a public meeting on 20 December 1856 at Machynlleth. There was support for a railway, and the engineer Benjamin Piercy prepared plans for a route. A 23-mile (37 km) line from the Llanidloes and Newtown Railway near Caersws to Machynlleth ...
Although the village no longer has a railway station, it is on the route of the Newtown and Machynlleth Railway which opened in 1863. The line passes through Talerddig cutting, a significant civil engineering achievement of the 1860s being 120 feet (37 m) deep, the deepest in the world at the time of its completion in 1862. [1] [2]
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This is a route-map template for the Newtown and Machynlleth Railway, a Welsh railway line and/or company.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.