Llandinam railway station was a station serving

Llandinam Llandinam () is a village and community (Wales), community in Montgomeryshire, Powys, central Wales, between Newtown, Powys, Newtown and Llanidloes, located on the A470 road, A470. As a community, Llandinam is made up of the village itself, small ...

, Powys, on the

Llanidloes and Newtown Railway The Llanidloes and Newtown Railway (L&NR) was a railway company between Llanidloes and Newtown, Powys, Newtown in Montgomeryshire, Wales. It was promoted locally when plans for trunk railways passing through the locality were cancelled; local peo ...

(L&NR) line. The L&NR was authorised in August 1853; construction began in October 1855 and the line was opened between those points for goods traffic only on 30 April 1859 – passengers were carried from 31 August 1859. Llandinam was one of three intermediate stations on the 13-mile line. The station was opened in 1859 by David Davies who was born in Llandinam and was a major contractor for building the line. In July 1864 the L&NR amalgamated with three other railways to create the

Cambrian Railways The Cambrian Railways owned of track over a large area of mid Wales. The system was an amalgamation of a number of railways that were incorporated in 1864, 1865 and 1904. The Cambrian connected with two larger railways with connections to the ...

, which in January 1922 amalgamated with the

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 ...

which itself became part of

British Railways British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most of the overground rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. It was formed from the nationalisation of the Big Four British rai ...

in 1948. It closed to passengers at the end of 1962, and finally to goods in 1967. The station fronted the River Severn beyond

Llandinam Bridge Llandinam Bridge ( cy, Pont Llandinam) is a single-arch cast-iron Grade II*-listed bridge located in Llandinam, Powys, Wales. Constructed in 1846, it was the first cast-iron bridge in the county of Montgomeryshire, and was designed by Thomas Pe ...

and is now a private dwelling. There remains a section of track embedded in the road from the A470 to Broneirion at the former level crossing site.

Services

In 1904, the station could handle goods, passengers and parcels, but there were no facilities for the conveyance by rail of road vehicles or livestock. There was no crane for loading goods wagons. By 1956, however, the station could accommodate “furniture vans, carriages, motor cars, portable engines, and machines, on wheels” as well as live stock, horse boxes and prize cattle vans, as well as “carriages and motor cars by passenger or parcels train”. Passenger services in October 1904 comprised seven down (southbound) services each day from Moat Lane, of which three ran only as far as Llanidloes; one ran to ; and three ran right through to

Brecon Brecon (; cy, Aberhonddu; ), archaically known as Brecknock, is a market town in Powys, mid Wales. In 1841, it had a population of 5,701. The population in 2001 was 7,901, increasing to 8,250 at the 2011 census. Historically it was the coun ...

. In the up (northbound) direction, there were six trains to Moat Lane, three of which originated at Brecon; one at Builth Wells; and two at Llanidloes. On Sundays, there was one train in each direction, running between Moat Lane and Brecon. Three of the daily down services stopped only by request. In October 1942 there were six passenger trains per day in each direction, and one in each direction was extended beyond Moat Lane to but there was no longer a Sunday service. By 1962 there were nine trains in each direction, and there was now a through service to and from .

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