Aberedw railway station

Aberedw
Location of the former station (1994)
General information
Location	Aberedw, Powys Wales
Coordinates	52°07′07″N3°21′06″W / 52.1187°N 3.3518°W / 52.1187; -3.3518
Grid reference	SO074476
Platforms	1
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Mid Wales Railway
Pre-grouping	Cambrian Railways
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Key dates
1867	Opened [1]
31 December 1962	Closed
Location

Aberedw railway station served the village of Aberedw in Powys, Wales. Aberedw Castle was demolished to build the station and some of the stone from the castle was used as track ballast. ^[2]

History

Opened by the Mid Wales Railway, then operated by the Cambrian Railways, it became part of the Great Western Railway. Passing on to the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948, it was then closed by the British Transport Commission.

Author Shaun Sewell quotes a diarist as writing about the station, in 1877, that the reader should "Please imagine a wooden hut about 12 feet long ... divided by a partition ... and he will have a very good idea of Aberedw Railway Station". ^[3]

References

1. Railway Passenger Stations by M.Quick page 41
2. "Castle Preservation: Vanished Castles". Castles of Britain. Archived from the original on 16 June 2007.
3. Scott, Ronnie. Three Men and a Bradshaw. Random House. pp. 302–3.

• Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN   1-85260-508-1.
• Jowett, A. (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas. Atlantic Publishing. ISBN   0-906899-99-0.
• Aberedw station on navigable O. S. map

Further reading

• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2007). Brecon to Newtown. Middleton Press. figs. 46-47. ISBN   9781906008062. OCLC   288983659.

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Llanferedd Halt Line and station closed		Cambrian Railways Mid-Wales Railway		Erwood Line and station closed