Blaenplwyf Halt railway station

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Blaenplwyf Halt
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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
Platforms1
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original company Lampeter, Aberayron and New Quay Light Railway
Pre-groupingLampeter, Aberayron and New Quay Light Railway
Post-grouping Great Western Railway
Key dates
12 May 1911Station opens
12 February 1951 [1] Station closes (last train)
7 May 1951Station closes (official) [1]
1963Line closed for general freight
1 October 1973Line closes for milk traffic
Summer 1975Track lifted
Lampeter, Aberayron and
New Quay Light Railway
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Lampeter
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Silian Halt
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Blaenplwyf Halt
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Talsarn Halt
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Felin Fach
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Green Grove Creamery
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Ciliau-Aeron Halt
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Crossways Halt
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Llanerch-Ayron Halt
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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.

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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. 1 2 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

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References

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