Abergwili railway station

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Abergwili
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Abergwili station remains (1992)
General information
Location Abergwili, Carmarthenshire
Wales
Platforms1
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Opened1 June 1865 (as Abergwilli)
Closed9 September 1963
Original company Llanelly Railway
Pre-grouping London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
April to June 1880Station closes
28 July 1893Renamed Abergwili

Abergwili railway station served the village of Abergwili in Wales. It was the first station after Gwili Junction, the point where the line through it divided from the Carmarthen to Aberystwyth Line.

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History

Opened by the Llanelly Railway, the station was absorbed into the London and North Western Railway as part of its ownership of the Central Wales Line. Becoming part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923, it passed on to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. Later transferred to the Western Region of British Railways, it was closed by the British Railways Board.

The site today

The station site remained undeveloped after closure and the platform survived until 1999 when the trackbed was used for the upgrading of the A40 trunk road as part of Carmarthen's eastern bypass. Nothing now remains as the trackbed has been subsumed beneath the new road scheme.

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References

Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Carmarthen Town   London and North Western Railway
Llanelly Railway
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