Felin Fach railway station

Felin Fach railway station
Felin Fach railway station
	Felin Fach station building at Llwyfan Cerrig
General information
Location	Felinfach, Ceredigion; Wales
Coordinates	52.1839°N 4.1562°W
Grid reference	SN5276056065
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Lampeter, Aberayron and New Quay Light Railway
Pre-grouping	Lampeter, Aberayron and New Quay Light Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Key dates
12 May 1911	Ystrad station opens[1]
1 January 1913	Renamed Felin Fach[2]
12 February 1951	Station closed (last train)[2]
7 May 1951	Station closed (official)[2]
1963	Closed for general goods traffic
1 October 1973	Line closed for milk traffic
Summer 1975	Track lifted

Felin Fach or Ystrad[3] was a small railway station in the rural location between Ystrad Aeron and Felinfach, the intermediate station on the Aberayron branch of the Carmarthen to Aberystwyth Line in the Welsh county of Ceredigion. Opened by the Lampeter, Aberayron and New Quay Light Railway, the branch to Aberayron diverged from the through line at Lampeter.

Lampeter, Aberayron and
New Quay Light Railway

					Carmarthen to Aberystwyth Line
					Lampeter
					Carmarthen to Aberystwyth Line
					Silian Halt
					A485
					Afon Denys

					Blaenplwyf Halt

					Talsarn Halt
					B4342
					Felin Fach
					Green Grove Creamery
					Ciliau-Aeron Halt
					Crossways Halt

					Llanerch-Ayron Halt
					Afon Aeron
					Aberayron

History

The branch was incorporated into the Great Western Railway during the Grouping of 1923, passing on to the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. Passenger services were discontinued in 1951, general freight in 1963 and milk traffic in 1973.[4] The station had a passing loop as shown by OS maps.

The Felin Fach station building survives on the Gwili Railway, having been dismantled and re-erected at Llwyfan Cerrig by volunteer rail enthusiasts.

Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-85260-508-1. R508.
Jowett, A. (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas. Atlantic Publishing. ISBN 0-906899-99-0.
Great Western Railway Journal Vol 2 No 16 (Autumn 1995)

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Talsarn		Great Western Railway Lampeter, Aberayron and New Quay Light Railway		Ciliau-Aeron

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