Carmarthen–Aberystwyth line
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The Carmarthen–Aberystwyth line was originally a standard-gauge branch line of the Great Western Railway in Wales, connecting Carmarthen and Aberystwyth.
End of gwili railway 2017
The Llangurig branch as built
Disused railway bridge over the River Gwili on the former Carmarthen to Aberystwyth line
Bryn Teifi station in 1962
Llangurig branch
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The Llangurig branch was a part of a proposed scheme by the Manchester and Milford Railway to connect industrialised Northwest England with the West Wales deep water port of Milford Haven. After vario
Carmarthen–Aberystwyth line
…undertaking the toughest engineering challenge – the line between Llanidloes and Strata Florida – when the money was running out. Though it started on the Llangurig branch, diverging from the Mid-Wales Railway at Penpontbren Junction, and got as far as Llangurig, it was decided, in 1865, instead to simply divert the…
The restored Georgian-style façade of Llanidloes railway station in 1990.
Site of the former Llangurig railway station, in November 1998