Ciliau-Aeron Halt railway station

Ciliau-Aeron Halt
General information
Location	Ceredigion Wales
Coordinates	52°12′36″N4°11′35″W / 52.2100°N 4.1931°W / 52.2100; -4.1931
Grid reference	SN5020459163
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 opened [1]
12 February 1951	Station closed (last train) [1]
7 May 1951	Station closed (official) [1]
1963	Closed for goods traffic
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

Ciliau-Aeron Halt ^[2] was a small railway station on the Aberayron branch of the Carmarthen to Aberystwyth Line in the Welsh county of Ceredigion serving the hamlet of Ciliau Aeron and the nearby estate of Tyglyn. 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 from near Felin Fach ceased in 1973. ^[3]

Photographs from 1957 show that the brick and stone-built platform had a crossing keeper's hut, lighting, a corrugated iron shelter and an old railway wagon as a store. A passing loop lay just short of the platform in the direction of Felin Fach.

Notes

1. Butt 1995, p. 61.
2. RCAHMW Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine 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

• Ciliau-Aeron Halt

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Felin Fach		Great Western Railway Lampeter, Aberayron and New Quay Light Railway		Crossways