Welshpool railway station serves the town of Welshpool (Welsh:Y Trallwng),in Powys,mid-Wales. It is a stop on the Cambrian Line between Shrewsbury and Machynlleth. The station was first opened in August 1860,but was resited a short distance away in May 1992 to allow for track realignment on the same day that the original closed.
Midland Counties Dairy bought and operated the creamery at Cilcewydd. A siding from the station gave access for milk trains to the creamery.
About 100 metres north of the station were exchange sidings with the narrow gauge Welshpool &Llanfair Light Railway,which opened for freight traffic in 1903. They closed in 1956,with a separate station serving passenger traffic until 1931. By 2017,the only remains are part of the cattle dock which has mixed gauge track embedded into concrete track bed.
The station building is extant and has been converted into a shop and café;all other remains of this station and the site of the railway were obliterated by the construction of the new A483 road.[1]
Present station
The present Welshpool station
There was some severe rationalisation of services under the Beeching cuts in the 1960s,with the old Cambrian main line to Whitchurch via Oswestry closed to passengers in January 1965;most local stations towards Aberystwyth following suit later that year. Two of the four platforms at the old station were later taken out of use.[1] Subsequent development of the A483 road Welshpool bypass,which opened in July 1993,[2] required the railway line to be shifted to the south. To enable this,the original station was closed and a new single island platform was constructed by British Rail north of it,to allow realignment in May 1992.
The replacement station platform is reached by a pedestrian bridge crossing both the railway and the A483,with long uncovered inclines to the north and stepped access from the south. The original station building can still be seen across the road.
Facilities
There are no facilities beyond a ticket vending machine,small shelter,bench seating,passenger information displays and a customer help point;though the National Rail Enquiries station page does have directions to a local travel agent with National Rail ticketing facilities.[3]
The passing loop was later extended southwards to 2.5 miles (4.0km) to allow for an hourly train service and to reduce the impact of delays on the line.
There is a basic two-hourly service each way on weekdays and Saturdays,with additional hourly Shrewsbury to Aberystwyth services at peak times. On Sundays,there is a two-hourly service on the Shrewsbury - Aberystwyth axis,but only a limited service along the coast to/from Pwllheli (three per day in summer and one in winter).[4]
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