:Aberedw railway station

{{Short description|Disused railway station in Aberedw, Powys}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2018}}

{{Use British English|date=March 2018}}

{{Infobox station

| name = Aberedw

| status = Disused

| image = Aberedw station site geograph-3223946-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg

| caption = Location of the former station (1994)

| borough = Aberedw, Powys

| country = Wales

| coordinates = {{coord|52.1187|-3.3518|type:railwaystation_region:GB|display=inline,title}}

| grid_name = Grid reference

| grid_position = {{gbmapscaled|SO074476|25|SO074476}}

| platforms = 1

| original = Mid Wales Railway

| pregroup = Cambrian Railways

| postgroup = Great Western Railway

| years = 1867

| events = OpenedRailway Passenger Stations by M.Quick page 41

| years1 = 31 December 1962

| events1 = Closed

}}

Aberedw railway station served the village of Aberedw in Powys, Wales. Aberedw Castle was demolished to build the station and some of the stone from the castle was used as track ballast.{{cite web|url=http://www.castles-of-britain.com/castlepu.htm|title=Castle Preservation: Vanished Castles|work=Castles of Britain|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070616121730/http://www.castles-of-britain.com/castlepu.htm|archivedate=16 June 2007}}

History

Opened by the Mid Wales Railway, then operated by the Cambrian Railways, 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.

Author Shaun Sewell quotes a diarist as writing about the station, in 1877, that the reader should "Please imagine a wooden hut about 12 feet long ... divided by a partition ... and he will have a very good idea of Aberedw Railway Station".{{cite book |first=Ronnie |last=Scott |title=Three Men and a Bradshaw |publisher=Random House |pages=302–3 }}

References

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  • {{cite book|first=R.V.J. |last=Butt |title= The Directory of Railway Stations |publisher=Patrick Stephens Ltd |year=1995 |ISBN=1-85260-508-1}}
  • {{cite book|first=A. |last=Jowett |title= Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas |publisher=Atlantic Publishing |year=2000 |ISBN=0-906899-99-0}}
  • [http://www.npemap.org.uk/tiles/map.html#306,247,1 Aberedw station on navigable O. S. map]

Further reading

  • {{cite book|title=Brecon to Newtown|first1=Vic|last1=Mitchell|first2=Keith|last2=Smith|at=figs. 46-47|publisher=Middleton Press|year=2007|isbn=9781906008062|oclc=288983659}}

{{Disused Rail Start}}

{{Rail line |next=Erwood
Line and station closed |previous=Llanferedd Halt
Line and station closed |route=Cambrian Railways
Mid-Wales Railway |col={{Cambrian colour}} }}

{{rail end}}

{{Closed stations Powys}}

Category:Disused railway stations in Powys

Category:Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1867

Category:Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1962

Category:Former Cambrian Railway stations

Category:1869 establishments in Wales

Category:1962 disestablishments in Wales

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