Blaenplwyf Halt railway station

Blaenplwyf Halt
Blaenplwyf Halt in June 1962.
General information
Location	Blaenplwyf, Ceredigion Wales
Coordinates	52°09′59″N4°05′47″W / 52.1663°N 4.0965°W / 52.1663; -4.0965
Grid reference	SN5670754032
Platforms	1
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Lampeter, Aberayron and New Quay Light Railway
Pre-grouping	Lampeter, Aberayron and New Quay Light Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Key dates
12 May 1911	Station opens
12 February 1951 [1]	Station closes (last train)
7 May 1951	Station closes (official) [1]
1963	Line closed for general freight
1 October 1973	Line closes for milk traffic
Summer 1975	Track lifted
Location

v t e Lampeter, Aberayron and New Quay Light Railway
Legend
Carmarthen to Aberystwyth Line Lampeter Carmarthen to Aberystwyth Line Silian Halt A485 Afon Denys Blaenplwyf Halt Talsarn Halt B4342 Felin Fach Green Grove Creamery Ciliau-Aeron Halt Crossways Halt Llanerch-Ayron Halt Afon Aeron Aberayron

Blaenplwyf Halt railway station ^[2] was a small railway station in a very rural location, the second stop after the junction for the Aberayron branch of the Carmarthen to Aberystwyth Line in the Welsh county of Ceredigion. Opened by the Lampeter, Aberayron and New Quay Light Railway, the branch to Aberayron diverged from the through line at Lampeter.

History

The branch was incorporated into the Great Western Railway during the Grouping of 1923, passing on to the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. Passenger services were discontinued in 1951, general freight in 1963 and milk traffic in 1973. ^[3] The single platform does not survive; like most of the others it was built from wooden railway sleepers.

Notes

1. Butt 1995, p. 212.
2. "Silian Halt, Lampeter Aberayron & New Quay Light Railway (41348)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved : 2012-09-23
3. Aberayron Branch Retrieved : 2012-09-23

References

• Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN   978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC   60251199. OL   11956311M.
• A. Jowett (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas. Atlantic Publishing. ISBN   0-906899-99-0
• Great Western Railway Journal Vol 2 No 16 (Autumn 1995)

External links

• Blaenplwyf Halt
• RAILSCOT on Lampeter, Aberayron and New Quay Light Railway

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Silian		Great Western Railway Lampeter, Aberayron and New Quay Light Railway		Talsarn