Cemmes Road railway station

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Cemmes Road
Cemmaes Road station building, platform side - geograph.org.uk - 1068739.jpg
Cemmes Road station building, after conversion to private residential accommodation, September 1982
General information
Location Cemmaes Road, Powys
Wales
Coordinates 52°37′30″N3°44′39″W / 52.6249°N 3.7442°W / 52.6249; -3.7442
Grid reference SH819044
Platforms3
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original company Newtown and Machynlleth Railway
Pre-grouping Cambrian Railways
Post-grouping Great Western Railway
Key dates
3 January 1863Opened [1] [ page needed ]
14 June 1965Closed [1]
Cemmes Road signal box, September 1982. A standard prefabricated design made at Swindon Works. The box was dismantled and moved to a heritage railway shortly after the photo was taken. Cemmaes Road signal box - geograph.org.uk - 1068750.jpg
Cemmes Road signal box, September 1982. A standard prefabricated design made at Swindon Works. The box was dismantled and moved to a heritage railway shortly after the photo was taken.

Cemmes Road was a railway station on the Newtown and Machynlleth Railway (N&MR) in Mid-Wales, serving the village of Cemmaes Road.

The N&MR passed through the Cambrian Mountains in the deep Talerddig cutting, which formed the summit of the line. From there it descended towards the coast, reaching the Dyfi valley at the village of Cemmaes Road, where there was a junction with the Mawddwy Railway. The N&MR continued west to Machynlleth.

The next station, north of Cemmes Road on the Mawddwy Railway, served the village of Cemmaes. To avoid confusion with that station, the N&MR's English backers named the junction station using an Anglicised version of the village's Welsh language name.

Cemmes Road station closed as a result of the Beeching Axe in 1965, although the station building still exists as a private house.

The signal box and passing loop closed in 1984 as part of rationalization.

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Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Terminus  Cambrian Railways
Mawddwy Railway
  Cemmaes
Line and station closed
  Historical railways  
Machynlleth
Line and station open
  Cambrian Railways
Newtown and Machynlleth Railway
  Commins Coch Halt
Line open, station closed