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Olmarch Halt railway station

Coordinates: 52°10′22″N 4°00′41″W / 52.1729°N 4.0115°W / 52.1729; -4.0115
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Olmarch Halt railway station
General information
LocationLlanddewi-Brefi, Ceredigion
Wales
Coordinates52°10′22″N 4°00′41″W / 52.1729°N 4.0115°W / 52.1729; -4.0115
Grid referenceSN6254254645
Platforms1
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyGreat Western Railway
Key dates
7 December 1929[1]Opened as a halt
22 February 1965[1]Closed

Olmarch Halt railway station, previously served the hamlet and rural locale of Olmarch near Llanddewi-Brefi and Pont Llanio on the Carmarthen Aberystwyth Line in the Welsh county of Ceredigion.

History

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The Manchester and Milford Railway (M&MR) opened from Pencader to Aberystwyth on 12 August 1867.[2] The line went into receivership from 1875 to 1900.

The Great Western Railway took over the service in 1906, and fully absorbed the line in 1911. The Great Western Railway and the station passed on to British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. It was then closed by the British Railways Board. The OS maps and photographs show that it had one platform that survives under the road overbridge.

Passenger services ran through to Aberystwyth until flooding severely damaged the line south of Aberystwyth in December 1964. A limited passenger service continued running from Carmarthen to Strata Florida until February 1965.

The line remained open for milk traffic until 1970.[3]


Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Llangybi   Great Western Railway
Carmarthen to Aberystwyth Line
  Pont Llanio

References

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Notes
  1. ^ a b Butt 1995, p. 178.
  2. ^ "Manchester and Milford Railway (91660)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 9 February 2012.
  3. ^ "Olmarch Railway Halt, Olmarch (41352)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 22 September 2012.
Sources
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Manchester and Milford Railway
Aberystwyth
Llanrhystyd Road
Llanilar
Felindyffryn Halt
Llanidloes
Trawscoed
Caradog Falls Halt
Llangurig
unbuilt connection
15 miles (24 km)
Aberayron
Llanerch-Ayron Halt
Strata Florida
Crossways Halt
Alltddu Halt
Ciliau-Aeron Halt
Tregaron
Felin Fach
Pont Llanio
Talsarn Halt
Olmarch Halt
Blaenplwyf Halt
Llangybi
Silian Halt
Derry Ormond
Newcastle Emlyn
Pontgoch
Lampeter
Henllan
Pencarreg Halt
Alltycefn Tunnel
Llanybydder
Pentrecourt Platform
Maesycrugiau
Llandyssul
Bryn Teifi
Teifi Valley route
(Carmarthen & Cardigan Rly)
Pencader Junction
Pencader
Pencader Tunnel
985 yd
901 m
Llanpumpsaint
Conwil
Danycoed Halt
Llwyfan Cerrig
Bronwydd Arms
Abergwili Junction
Carmarthen Town
Carmarthen