Where is Llanidloes railway station?

Llanidloes railway station is in Mid Wales, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 52.4474°, -3.5359°.

Heritage railway stations · Mid Wales

Llanidloes railway station

Llanidloes railway station in Wales Mid, United Kingdom.

Footbridge over the A470 to the centre of Llanidloes - geograph.org.uk - 2962066 — Andrew Hill — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence

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Typical visit: 1 h–2 h

Llanidloes railway station is a place of interest in Wales Mid, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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Llanidloes railway station is a former junction railway station in Llanidloes, Powys, Wales. The Cambrian Railways, which completed the building in 1864, designed it to be both the station for the town and its company headquarters. This dual purpose gave Llanidloes station an imposing appearance. The station closed to passengers in 1962. The rest of the line was abandoned in 1967. The trackbed has been redeveloped as a bypass carrying traffic around Llanidloes town centre. The former station building has been restored and is now a business centre.

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Background

History

Llanidloes development into a major junction station arose because of the rapid and chaotic growth of the Victorian railway network in Great Britain. In 1859, the Mid-Wales Railway (MWR) had received an Act of Parliament to build and run a railway from Newtown to Brecon via Builth Wells and then on to Merthyr Tydfil, Cardiff or Neath. But just as the MWR began building north towards Llanidloes, problems arose when the Manchester and Milford Railway (M&MR) finally received parliamentary assent to connect the industrial north west of England directly with the port of Milford Haven via a series of interconnecting lines in 1860. The initial proposal had been put forward in 1846 but the scheme…

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