Glanyrafon railway station

Glanyrafon
View of Glanyrafon halt (before the 2012 removal of the RETB mast)
Location
Place Glanyrafon
Area Ceredigion
Coordinates 52°24′16″N 4°02′17″W / 52.404515°N 4.037931°W / 52.404515; -4.037931Coordinates: 52°24′16″N 4°02′17″W / 52.404515°N 4.037931°W / 52.404515; -4.037931
Operations
Original company Vale of Rheidol Railway
Pre-grouping Cambrian Railways
Post-grouping Great Western Railway
Operated by Vale of Rheidol Railway
Platforms 1
History
7 May 1904 (1904-05-07) Opened
31 August 1939 Temporarily closed
23 July 1945 Reopened
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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]

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
Llanbadarn   Vale of Rheidol Railway   Capel Bangor

References

  1. ↑ 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.
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