Talgarth
Talgarth station in 2010
General information
LocationTalgarth, Powys
Wales
Coordinates51°59′45″N 3°14′07″W / 51.9958°N 3.2353°W / 51.9958; -3.2353
Platforms2
History
Original companyMid-Wales Railway
Pre-groupingCambrian Railways
Post-groupingGreat Western Railway
Key dates
21 September 1864Opened[1]
31 December 1962Closed[1]

Talgarth railway station is a former railway station on the Mid-Wales Railway. It opened in 1864 and closed in 1962, serving the town of Talgarth in Powys, Wales.

History

The station was opened in 1864 concurrent with the opening of the Mid-Wales company line between Llanidloes and Talyllyn Junction; regular services commenced in September 1864 but special trains had run at the end of August.[2][3]

Closure came on 31 December 1962 when all lines to Brecon including the Mid-Wales line were closed.[4]

Present day

The original station buildings survive as private residence and the trackbed is now in use as part of the A479 road.

References

  1. ^ a b Quick, Michael (2009) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (4th ed.). Oxford: Railway & Canal Historical Society. p. 375. ISBN 978-0-901461-57-5. OCLC 612226077.
  2. ^ "Opening of the Mid-Wales Railway". Eddowe's Shrewsbury Journal. Vol. 22, no. 1, 145. 31 August 1864. p. 7 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ^ "Opening of the Mid-Wales Railway". Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian. Vol. XXXI, no. 1715. 23 September 1864. p. 4 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. ^ Mowat, C.L. (1971). "The Heyday of the British Railway system: Vanishing evidence and the historian's task". Journal of Transport History. 1 (1). Leicester University Press: 3.


Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Three Cocks Junction
Line and station closed 		  Mid-Wales Railway
Mid-Wales Railway 		  Trefeinon
Line and station closed
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