Aberedw railway station

Infobox UK disused station
name = Aberedw


caption =
locale = Mid Wales
borough = Brecknockshire
line = Mid Wales Railway
owner = Great Western Railway
platforms = ?
latitude =
longitude =
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years = 1869
events = Station opens
years1 = 31 December 1962
events1 = Station closes Aberedw railway station served the village of Aberedw in Mid Wales. Aberedw Castle was demolished to build the station and some of the stone from the castle was used as track ballast. [http://www.castles-of-britain.com/castlepu.htm]

History

Opened by the Mid Wales Railway, then operated by the Cambrian Railway, it became part of the Great Western Railway. Passing on to the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948, it was then closed by the British Transport Commission.

The site today

External links

References

*cite book|author=R.V.J.Butt, |title= The Directory of Railway Stations |publisher=Patrick Stephens Ltd |year=1995 ISBN 1 85260 508 1

*cite book|author=A. Jowett, |title= Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas |publisher=Atlantic Publishing |year=2000 ISBN 0 906899 99 0