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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]
Machynlleth railway station is on the Cambrian Line in mid-Wales, serving the town of Machynlleth. It was built by the Newtown and Machynlleth Railway (N&MR) and subsequently passed into the ownership of the Cambrian Railways , the Great Western Railway , Western Region of British Railways and London Midland Region of British Railways .
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 ...
Talerddig cutting through the granite Cambrian Mountains, Wales in 2001. Created as part of the Newtown and Machynlleth Railway, with a depth of 120 feet (37 m), it was the deepest cutting in the world at the time of its opening in the early 1860s.
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.
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]
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.
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.