Time Capsules
Aberedw Railway Station in 1950s
Photo of the Aberedw train station, Wales, as it was in the 1950s.
The station opened in 1869 and Aberedw Castle was demolished to build the station. The one platform station did not reach its centenary as it was closed by the Transport Commission in 1962.
Photo © The Step Back Through Time Collection
Picture added on 25 June 2009
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Step back through Time, trains and stations
Step back through Time, trains and stations
The line has gone.
Added by Martin Bodman on 03 October 2009
this little station is between Three cocks & Builth Wells in Radnorshire
Added by Alun Stone on 24 March 2010
Cambrian Railway. In the First World War a small percentage of the Admiralty coal trains hammered over this relatively remote route - 250 of them, carrying in all 100, 000 tons of Welsh coal for the Grand Fleet at Scapa Flow in the Orkneys. Coals to Newcastle? No, these trains ran to Grangemouth, from whence the coal was shipped by coaster to the Orkneys. 1918 saw heightened activity on this single-track, heavily graded, line and signalboxes at crossing places were kept open throughout the night to deal with the traffic. One such freight over the line was scheduled at Gobowen at 2:10 in the morning, due to reach Chester at 4:35am.
[Sources: Keith Turton, Admiralty Coal Traffic during the First World War, Part 2. Railway Archive 20, September 2008, 21-45, and R W Kidner, The Mid-Wales Railway, Oakwood Press, 2003]
[Sources: Keith Turton, Admiralty Coal Traffic during the First World War, Part 2. Railway Archive 20, September 2008, 21-45, and R W Kidner, The Mid-Wales Railway, Oakwood Press, 2003]
Added by Martin Bodman on 30 March 2010
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