Olmarch Halt railway station
Olmarch Halt railway station | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Location | Llanddewi-Brefi, Ceredigion Wales |
| Coordinates | 52°10′22″N 4°00′41″W / 52.1729°N 4.0115°W |
| Grid reference | SN6254254645 |
| Platforms | 1 |
| Other information | |
| Status | Disused |
| History | |
| Original company | Great Western Railway |
| Key dates | |
| 7 December 1929[1] | Opened as a halt |
| 22 February 1965[1] | Closed |
Olmarch Halt railway station, previously served the hamlet and rural locale of Olmarch near Llanddewi-Brefi and Pont Llanio on the Carmarthen Aberystwyth Line in the Welsh county of Ceredigion.
History
[edit]The Manchester and Milford Railway (M&MR) opened from Pencader to Aberystwyth on 12 August 1867.[2] The line went into receivership from 1875 to 1900.
The Great Western Railway took over the service in 1906, and fully absorbed the line in 1911. The Great Western Railway and the station passed on to British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. It was then closed by the British Railways Board. The OS maps and photographs show that it had one platform that survives under the road overbridge.
Passenger services ran through to Aberystwyth until flooding severely damaged the line south of Aberystwyth in December 1964. A limited passenger service continued running from Carmarthen to Strata Florida until February 1965.
The line remained open for milk traffic until 1970.[3]
| Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Llangybi | Great Western Railway Carmarthen to Aberystwyth Line |
Pont Llanio |
References
[edit]- Notes
- ^ a b Butt 1995, p. 178.
- ^ "Manchester and Milford Railway (91660)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 9 February 2012.
- ^ "Olmarch Railway Halt, Olmarch (41352)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 22 September 2012.
- Sources
- Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
- Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
- Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
External links
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