Cemmes Road railway station

Cemmes Road was a railway station on the Newtown and Machynlleth Railway (N&MR) in Mid-Wales, serving the village of Cemmaes Road.

Cemmes Road
Cemmes Road station building, after conversion to private residential accommodation, September 1982
LocationCemmaes Road, Powys
Wales
Coordinates52.6249°N 3.7442°W / 52.6249; -3.7442
Grid referenceSH819044
Platforms3
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyNewtown and Machynlleth Railway
Pre-groupingCambrian Railways
Post-groupingGreat Western Railway
Key dates
3 January 1863Opened[1]
14 June 1965Closed[1]
Cemmes Road signal box, September 1982. A standard prefabricated design made at Swindon Works, shortly afterwards it was dismantled and moved to a heritage railway

The N&MR, passed through the Cambrian Mountains in the deep Talerddig cutting, which formed the summit of the line. From there it descended towards the coast, reaching the Dyfi valley at the village of Cemmaes Road. Here there was a junction with the Mawddwy Railway. The N&MR continued west to Machynlleth.

The next station north of Cemmes Road on the Mawddwy Railway served the village of Cemmaes; to avoid confusion with that station, the N&MR's English backers named the junction station using an Anglicanised-version of the village's Welsh language name.

Cemmes Road shut under the Beeching Axe in 1965, although the station building still exists today as a private house.

References
  • Butt, R. V. J. (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.
  1. Jenkins & Loader 2015

Sources
  • Jenkins, Stanley C.; Loader, Martin (2015). The Great Western Railway: Shrewsbury to Pwllheli. 5. Amberley Publishing. ISBN 9781445642864. OCLC 898088602.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Machynlleth
Line and station open		   Great Western Railway
Mawddwy Railway		   Cemmaes
Line and station closed
  Great Western Railway
Newtown and Machynlleth Railway		   Commins Coch Halt
Line open, station closed
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