Derry Ormond railway station served the hamlet and rural locale of
Betws Bledrws near
Llangybi, as well as the mansion and estate of Derry Ormond (demolished in 1953) on the
Carmarthen Aberystwyth Line
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in the
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county of
Ceredigion
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. Opened in 1867 as Bettws, it was renamed in July 1874 in honour of the local estate, owned by the influential Jones, later Inglis-Jones, family.
History
The
Manchester and Milford Railway
The Manchester and Milford Railway was a Welsh railway company, intended to connect Manchester and the industrial areas of Northwest England with a deep-water port on Milford Haven, giving an alternative to the Port of Liverpool.
Despite the tit ...
(M&MR) opened from
Pencader to
Aberystwyth
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on 12 August 1867. The line went into receivership from 1875 to 1900.
The
Great Western Railway
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took over the service in 1906, and fully absorbed the line in 1911. The
Great Western Railway
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and the station passed on to
British Railways
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on
nationalisation
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in 1948. It was then closed by the
British Railways Board
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. The OS maps and photographs show that it had one platform, a signal box, a weighing machine, and a siding. A passing loop was located just beyond the Llangybi end of the single platform.
[Derelict Miscellany]
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Passenger services ran through to
Aberystwyth
Aberystwyth () is a university and seaside town as well as a community in Ceredigion, Wales. Located in the historic county of Cardiganshire, means "the mouth of the Ystwyth". Aberystwyth University has been a major educational location in ...
until flooding severely damaged the line south of Aberystwyth in December 1964. A limited service continued running from
Carmarthen
Carmarthen (, RP: ; cy, Caerfyrddin , "Merlin's fort" or "Sea-town fort") is the county town of Carmarthenshire and a community in Wales, lying on the River Towy. north of its estuary in Carmarthen Bay. The population was 14,185 in 2011, ...
to
Tregaron
Tregaron ( "town of St Caron") is an ancient market town in Ceredigion, Wales, astride the River Brenig, a tributary of the River Teifi. Tregaron is northeast of Lampeter. According to the 2011 Census, the population of the ward of Tregaron wa ...
for a few months after the line was severed, however this was the era of the
Beeching Axe
The Beeching cuts (also Beeching Axe) was a plan to increase the efficiency of the nationalised railway system in Great Britain. The plan was outlined in two reports: ''The Reshaping of British Railways'' (1963) and ''The Development of the ...
and the line was closed to passengers in February 1965.
The line remained open for milk traffic until 1970. The corrugated iron station buildings are a remarkable survival of a small station little altered since
Great Western Railway
The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament on 31 August 1835 and ran ...
, in GWR colours, which served the combined function of waiting room and ticket office.
[Derelict Places]
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