Cyfronydd railway station lies from Welshpool's Raven Square station on the
narrow gauge Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway in
Mid Wales
Mid Wales ( cy, Canolbarth Cymru or simply ''Y Canolbarth'', meaning "the midlands") or Central Wales refers to a region of Wales, encompassing its midlands, in-between North Wales and South Wales. The Mid Wales Regional Committee of the Senedd ...
. This is where trains pass each other when a two train service is operating. Passengers are able to alight and join trains here. The station serves the hamlet of Cyfronydd on the main Dolgellau to Welshpool road as well as Cyfronydd Hall.
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Cyfronydd Hall
Cyfronydd Hall is a Welsh country house located on the A458 road between Welshpool and the hamlet of Cyfronydd, Llanfair Caereinion. It was built in about 1865 for the Pryce Jones family after an earlier hall on the site burned down. It once ...
, where former Foreign Secretary
William Hague lives, is nearby.
Opened on 6 April 1903 it was closed to passengers on 9 February 1931. It was the
Great Western Railway
The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament on 31 August 1835 and ran ...
that withdrew passenger services in 1931.
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Notes
References
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* Rushton, Gordon (2015). ''The Welshpool & Llanfair Railway Travellers's Guide.'' Llanfair Caereinion : Welshpool & Llanfair Railway.
External links
Video footage of Cyfronydd Station
3 minutes from Welshpool to Llanfair Caereinion
Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway
Heritage railway stations in Powys
Former Cambrian Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1903
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1931
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1963
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