Glanyrafon railway station
Glanyrafon railway station (formerly Glanrafon) is a railway station serving Glanyrafon in Ceredigion in Mid-Wales. It is a request stop on the preserved Vale of Rheidol Railway. It is 2 miles 26 chains (3.74 km) from Aberystwyth and has no surviving station buildings or platforms, passengers are required to step down from the train to the grass below.[1]
Glanyrafon | |
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Station on heritage railway | |
View of Glanyrafon halt (before the 2012 removal of the RETB mast) | |
Location | Glanyrafon, Ceredigion Wales |
Coordinates | 52.404515°N 4.037931°W |
Operated by | Vale of Rheidol Railway |
Platforms | 1 |
History | |
Original company | Vale of Rheidol Railway |
Pre-grouping | Cambrian Railways |
Post-grouping | Great Western Railway |
Key dates | |
7 May 1904 | Opened |
31 August 1939 | Temporarily closed |
23 July 1945 | Reopened |
In 2012, an RETB signalling mast, which was part of the Cambrian Line infrastructure, was removed from the station by contractors working for Network Rail, having been in place since the 1980s.
Preceding station | Heritage railways | Following station | ||
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Llanbadarn | Vale of Rheidol Railway | Capel Bangor |
References
- Yonge, John (March 2005) [1990]. Jacobs, Gerald (ed.). Railway Track Diagrams 4: Midlands & North West (2nd ed.). Bradford on Avon: Trackmaps. map 23E. ISBN 0-9549866-0-1.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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