Talerddig is a village in
Powys
Powys (; ) is a county and preserved county in Wales. It is named after the Kingdom of Powys which was a Welsh successor state, petty kingdom and principality that emerged during the Middle Ages following the end of Roman rule in Britain.
Geog ...
,
mid Wales, located on the main
A470 road
The A470 (also named the Cardiff to Glan Conwy Trunk Road) is a trunk road in Wales. It is the country's longest road at and links the capital Cardiff on the south coast to Llandudno on the north coast. While previously one had to navigate ...
between
Llanbrynmair and
Carno
Carno is a village in Powys, Wales. The community, which is also a parish in the historic county of Montgomeryshire, comprises the townships of Derlwyn, Llysyn, and Trowscoed. It is in the geographical centre of Wales.
Geography
The Afon Car ...
. It is part of Llanbrynmair
community
A community is a social unit (a group of living things) with commonality such as place, norms, religion, values, customs, or identity. Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given geographical area (e.g. a country, village, ...
.
Talerddig cutting
Although the village no longer has a
railway station
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a prep ...
, it is on the route of the 1863 constructed
Newtown and Machynlleth Railway. The route passes through
Talerddig cutting
The Newtown and Machynlleth Railway was a railway company in Wales. It built a line from a junction with the Llanidloes and Newtown Railway near Caersws to the market town of Machynlleth; the line opened in 1862. Newtown had become the hub of ...
, a significant
civil engineering
Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewa ...
achievement of the 1860s being deep and cut through solid rock, and the deepest in the world at the time of its completion in 1862.
There was an accident in the cutting on 18 January 1921, of which several pictures survive. There remains a
passing loop
A passing loop (UK usage) or passing siding (North America) (also called a crossing loop, crossing place, refuge loop or, colloquially, a hole) is a place on a single line railway or tramway, often located at or near a station, where trains or ...
today on the single track
Cambrian Line where railway station existed until 1965. The passing loop was retained in track rationalisations of the 1970s due to the need to "pin down" the
brakes
A brake is a mechanical device that inhibits motion by absorbing energy from a moving system. It is used for slowing or stopping a moving vehicle, wheel, axle, or to prevent its motion, most often accomplished by means of friction.
Background ...
on freight trains over the summit, and now a critical operational node for passing passenger trains.
[Carno Station Action Group]
Talerddig Passing Loop
Gallery
File:Talerddig Aberystwyth - Carmarthen train geograph-2514343-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg , Aberystwyth - Shrewsbury train at Talerddig in 1953
File:Railway Cutting at the summit of Talerddig bank - geograph.org.uk - 195516.jpg, Talerddig Cutting in 2001. This was the deepest in the world at the time of its opening in the early 1860s. The original near-vertical sides have since been trimmed back
File:Talerddig Signal Box - geograph.org.uk - 821067.jpg, Talerddig Signal Box. The railway line lies behind the signal box
References
External links
Photos of Talerddig and surrounding area on geograph*1921 rail crash
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Villages in Powys
Railway cuttings in the United Kingdom