Station Name: NEWCASTLE EMLYN

 

[Source: Nick Catford]


Date opened: 1.7.1895
Location: On the north side of Station Road (A484)
Company on opening: Great Western Railway
Date closed to passengers: 15.9.1952
Date closed completely: Unknown
Company on closing: British Railways (Western Region)
Present state: A motor repair business now occupies the site, no evidence of the station remains following a recent expansion of the business.
County: Carmarthenshire
OS Grid Ref: SN313404
Date of visit: August 1967

Notes: Terminus of a line from Carmarthen. As originally planned it would have been an intermediate station on the Carmarthen - Cardigan Railway but the line never went beyond Newcastle Emlyn. The station remained open for goods traffic long after the passenger service was withdrawn in 1952. There have been a proposal to reinstate a steam service on the line in more recent years but this amounted to nothing.

The Teifi Valley Railway, taking its name from what the old line was called locally, is a narrow gauge steam/diesel visitor attraction which runs part way to Newcastle Emlyn from its base at Henllan but cannot run into Newcastle Emlyn because a bridge over the Teifi has been demolished following storm damage.




Photo: Newcastle Emlyn Station in August 1967
Photo by Nick Catford


Photo by R C Riley


Photo by Nick Catford


Photo: Newcastle Emlyn Station in August 1967
Photo by Nick Catford

[Source: Nick Catford]


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