Cemmes Road railway station

Cemmes Road
General information
Location	Powys
Coordinates	52.6249°N 3.7442°W / 52.6249; -3.7442
Platforms	3
History
Original company	Newtown and Machynlleth Railway
Pre-grouping	Cambrian Railways
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Key dates
3 January 1863	Opened
14 June 1965	Closed

Cemmes Road signal box, September 1982. A standard prefabricated design made at Swindon Works, shortly afterwards it was dismantled and moved to a heritage railway

Cemmes Road was a railway station on the Newtown and Machynlleth Railway (N&MR) in Mid-Wales, serving the village of Cemmaes Road.

The N&MR, passed through the Cambrian Mountains in the deep Talerddig cutting, which formed the summit of the line. From there it descended towards the coast, reaching the Dyfi valley at the village of Cemmaes Road. Here there was a junction with the Mawddwy Railway. The N&MR continued west to Machynlleth.

The next station north of Cemmes road on the Mawddwy Railway served the village of Cemmaes; to avoid confusion with that station, the N&MR's English backers named the junction station using an Anglicanised-version of the village's Welsh language name.

Cemmes Road shut under the Beeching Axe in 1965, although the station building still exists today as a private house.

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.

Sources

• Jenkins, Stanley C.; Loader, Martin (2015). The Great Western Railway: Shrewsbury to Pwllheli. Vol. 5. Amberley Publishing. ISBN 9781445642864. OCLC 898088602. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Machynlleth Line and station open		Great Western Railway Mawddwy Railway		Cemmaes Line and station closed
		Great Western Railway Newtown and Machynlleth Railway		Commins Coch Halt Line open, station closed