Where is Olmarch Halt railway station?

Olmarch Halt railway station is in Mid Wales, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 52.1729°, -4.0115°.

Heritage railway stations · Mid Wales

Olmarch Halt railway station

Olmarch Halt railway station in Wales Mid, United Kingdom.

Grazing near Olmarch, Ceredigion - geograph.org.uk - 2523352 — Roger Kidd — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence

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Typical visit: 1 h–2 h

Olmarch Halt 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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From the Wikipedia article

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.

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Background

History

The Manchester and Milford Railway (M&MR) opened from Pencader to Aberystwyth on 12 August 1867. 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…

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