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Boughrood & Llyswen railway station

Coordinates: 52°02′30″N 3°16′16″W / 52.0418°N 3.2712°W / 52.0418; -3.2712
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Boughrood & Llyswen
General information
LocationPowys
Coordinates52°02′30″N 3°16′16″W / 52.0418°N 3.2712°W / 52.0418; -3.2712
Platforms2
History
Original companyMid-Wales Railway
Pre-groupingCambrian Railways
Post-groupingGreat Western Railway
Key dates
21 September 1864Opened
31 December 1962Closed

Boughrood and Llyswen railway station, in Boughrood Powys, Wales, was opened on 21 September 1864 by the Mid-Wales Railway as Boughrood Station. It became Boughrood and Llyswen station on 1 October 1912 while under the ownership of the Cambrian Railways. On a single track main line, it had a passing loop with platforms on either side and a signal box at the northern end of the platform to Moat Lane Junction. The station closed on 31 December 1962.[1]

References

  1. ^ "Boughrood & Llyswen". Signalling Record Society. Retrieved 8 March 2017.[permanent dead link]

Further reading

  • Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2003). Brecon to Newtown. Middleton Press. figs. 35-38. ISBN 9781906008062. OCLC 288983659.
  • "More Western branch line wanderings". Back Track. Vol. 26, no. 256. Pendragon Publishing. August 2012. pp. 490–492. OCLC 613022303.


Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Llanstephan Halt
Line and station closed
  Great Western Railway
Mid-Wales Railway
  Three Cocks Junction
Line and station closed