Talerddig is a village in
Powys
Powys ( , ) is a Principal areas of Wales, county and Preserved counties of Wales, preserved county in Wales. It borders Gwynedd, Denbighshire, and Wrexham County Borough, Wrexham to the north; the English Ceremonial counties of England, ceremo ...
,
mid Wales
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, located on the main
A470 road
The A470 (also named the Cardiff to Glan Conwy Trunk Road) is a trunk road in Wales. It is the country's longest road at and links the capital Cardiff on the south coast to Llandudno on the north coast. While previously one had to navigate th ...
between
Llanbrynmair
Llanbrynmair or Llanbryn-mair () is a village, Community (Wales), community and electoral ward in Montgomeryshire, Powys, Wales on the A470 road between Caersws and Machynlleth. In 2011, it had a population of 920.
Description
The community inc ...
and
Carno
Carno is a village and Community (Wales), community in Powys, Wales. It was also a parish in the historic county of Montgomeryshire, comprising the townships of Derlwyn, Llysyn and Trowscoed. It is in the geographical centre of Wales.
History
...
. It is part of Llanbrynmair
community
A community is a social unit (a group of people) with a shared socially-significant characteristic, such as place, set of norms, culture, religion, values, customs, or identity. Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given g ...
.
Talerddig cutting
Although the village no longer has a
railway station
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...
, it is on the route of the
Newtown and Machynlleth Railway which opened in 1863. The line passes through
Talerddig cutting
The Newtown and Machynlleth Railway was a railway company in Wales. It built a line from a junction with the Llanidloes and Newtown Railway near Caersws to the market town of Machynlleth; the line opened in 1862. Newtown, Powys, Newtown had bec ...
, a significant civil engineering achievement of the 1860s being deep, the deepest in the world at the time of its completion in 1862.
There was an accident in the cutting on 18 January 1921, of which several pictures survive. There remains a
passing loop
A passing loop (UK usage) or passing siding (North America) (also called a crossing loop, crossing place, refuge loop or, colloquially, a hole) is a place on a single line railway or tramway, often located at or near a station, where trains o ...
today on the single track
Cambrian Line
The Cambrian Line (), sometimes split into the Cambrian Main Line () and Cambrian Coast Line () for its branches, is a railway line that runs from Shrewsbury in England, westwards to Aberystwyth and Pwllheli in Wales. Passenger train services ...
where railway station existed until 1965. The passing loop was retained in track rationalisations of the 1970s due to the need to "pin down" the
brakes
A brake is a mechanical device that inhibits motion by absorbing energy from a moving system. It is used for slowing or stopping a moving vehicle, wheel, axle, or to prevent its motion, most often accomplished by means of friction.
Background
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on freight trains over the summit, and now a critical operational node for passing passenger trains.
On 21 October 2024,
two trains collided west of the passing loop, killing one and injuring fifteen.
Gallery
File:Talerddig Aberystwyth - Carmarthen train geograph-2514343-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg , Aberystwyth - Shrewsbury train at Talerddig in 1953
File:Railway Cutting at the summit of Talerddig bank - geograph.org.uk - 195516.jpg, Talerddig Cutting in 2001. This was the deepest in the world at the time of its opening in the early 1860s. The original near-vertical sides have since been trimmed back
File:Talerddig Signal Box - geograph.org.uk - 821067.jpg, Talerddig Signal Box. The railway line lies behind the signal box
References
External links
Photos of Talerddig and surrounding area on geograph*1921 rail crash
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Villages in Powys
Railway cuttings in the United Kingdom