Aberedw railway station

52°07′07″N 3°21′06″W / 52.1187°N 3.3518°W / 52.1187; -3.3518Grid referenceSO074476Platforms1Other informationStatusDisusedHistoryOriginal companyMid Wales RailwayPre-groupingCambrian RailwaysPost-groupingGreat Western RailwayKey dates1867Opened^[1]31 December 1962Closed

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.^[2]

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".^[3]

References

• Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-85260-508-1.
• Jowett, A. (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas. Atlantic Publishing. ISBN 0-906899-99-0.
• Aberedw station on navigable O. S. map

Further reading

• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2007). Brecon to Newtown. Middleton Press. figs. 46-47. ISBN 9781906008062. OCLC 288983659.

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Erwood Line and station closed		Great Western Railway Mid-Wales Railway		Llanferedd Halt Line and station closed