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Parcyrhun Halt railway station served the town of
Ammanford, Carmarthenshire Ammanford ( cy, Rhydaman) is a town and community in Carmarthenshire, Wales, with a population of 5,411 at the 2011 census. It is a former coal mining town. The built-up area had a population of 7,945 with the wider urban area even bigger. Acco ...
, Wales from 1936 to 1955 on the
Llanelly Railway The Llanelly Railway and Dock Company was an early Welsh railway system. It opened its first short line and a wet dock at Llanelly in 1834, and soon went on to build a longer line from Llanelly to serve pits in the Amman Valley, and then on to Lla ...
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History

The station opened on 4 May 1936 by 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 ...
. It closed to both passengers and goods traffic on 13 June 1955.M E Quick, ''Railway Passenger Stations in England Scotland and Wales—A Chronology'', The Railway and Canal Historical Society, 2002, p. 314


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Disused railway stations in Carmarthenshire Former Great Western Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1936 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1955 1936 establishments in Wales {{Wales-railstation-stub