Trimsaran Road railway station was opened in 1909 at MorfaCarmarthenshire, LIII.8, Revised: 1913, Published: 1915
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Trimsaran Trimsaran is a community and former mining village which lies on the B4308 between Llanelli and Kidwelly, in the Welsh county of Carmarthenshire. Trimsaran is six miles (10 km) from Llanelli, and from Carmarthen. It is close to Burry Por ...

area between 1909 and 1953 and was one of several basic halts opened on the

Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway :''Note: During most of the period of operation of the BP&GVR the anglicised spellings of Welsh place names were in use, and for consistency are used in this article. The Company's registered name included the incorrect spelling ''Gwendreath'' due t ...

Carmarthenshire Carmarthenshire ( cy, Sir Gaerfyrddin; or informally ') is a county in the south-west of Wales. The three largest towns are Llanelli, Carmarthen and Ammanford. Carmarthen is the county town and administrative centre. The county is known as ...

, Wales. It lay some distance to the west of the village of

History

The station was opened on 1 February 1909 by the

on the Kidwelly and Burry Port section of the line and was closed by the British Transport Commission in 1953 with the last passenger train running on Saturday 19 September 1953. It was on the southern section of the

with Pinged located to the south and Glyn Abbey to the north of the East Kidwelly Junction. A rural area with a school nearby. The railway was originally a freight only line, built on the route of an old canal and prone to flooding, but stations were established due to pressure from the public. The freight service continued for coal traffic until 1996 by which time the last of the local collieries had closed down. The Kidwelly route was used for coal trains, resulting in the lifting of track between Trimsaran Road and Burry Port by 2005. A public house,'The Plough', stood nearby.

Infrastructure

The station had one wooden platform on the eastern side of this single track line with a small wooden shelter. The station had no public sidings but several coal traffic related sidings stood to the south on the other side of the road overbridge.SN40SW - A, Surveyed / Revised: Pre-1930 to 1963, Published: 1964
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Services

The station was open for use by the general public. Circa 1898 passenger trains for the use of miners ran from Burry Port, calling at Trimsaran Road to transport colliers who had walked there from the Kidwelly area.

Remnants

The section south of Pinged, between Burry Port and Craiglon Bridge Halt is now a footpath and cycleway.

Routes

References

External links

Burry Port and Gwendreath Railway - 2011
{{DEFAULTSORT:Trimsaran Road railway station Disused railway stations in Carmarthenshire Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1909 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1953 Former Great Western Railway stations