Ciliau-Aeron Halt railway station

Former railway station in Wales

52°12′36″N 4°11′35″W / 52.2100°N 4.1931°W / 52.2100; -4.1931Grid referenceSN5020459163Platforms1Other informationStatusDisusedHistoryOriginal companyLampeter, Aberayron and New Quay Light RailwayPre-groupingLampeter, Aberayron and New Quay Light RailwayPost-groupingGreat Western RailwayKey dates12 May 1911Station opened^[1]12 February 1951Station closed (last train)^[1]7 May 1951Station closed (official)^[1]1963Closed for goods traffic

Lampeter, Aberayron and
New Quay Light Railway

Legend

					Carmarthen to Aberystwyth Line
					Lampeter
					Carmarthen to Aberystwyth Line
					Silian Halt
					A485
					Afon Denys

					Blaenplwyf Halt

					Talsarn Halt
					B4342
					Felin Fach
					Green Grove Creamery
					Ciliau-Aeron Halt
					Crossways Halt

					Llanerch-Ayron Halt
					Afon Aeron
					Aberayron

Ciliau-Aeron Halt^[2] was a small railway station on the Aberayron branch of the Carmarthen to Aberystwyth Line in the Welsh county of Ceredigion serving the hamlet of Ciliau Aeron and the nearby estate of Tyglyn. Opened by the Lampeter, Aberayron and New Quay Light Railway, the branch to Aberayron diverged from the through line at Lampeter.

History

The branch was incorporated into the Great Western Railway during the Grouping of 1923, passing on to the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. Passenger services were discontinued in 1951, general freight in 1963, and milk traffic from near Felin Fach ceased in 1973.^[3]

Photographs from 1957 show that the brick and stone-built platform had a crossing keeper's hut, lighting, a corrugated iron shelter and an old railway wagon as a store. A passing loop lay just short of the platform in the direction of Felin Fach.

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c Butt 1995, p. 61.
^ RCAHMW Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved : 2012-09-23
^ Aberayron Branch Retrieved : 2012-09-23

References

Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
A. Jowett (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas. Atlantic Publishing. ISBN 0-906899-99-0
Great Western Railway Journal Vol 2 No 16 (Autumn 1995)[1]