Abergwili railway station

Abergwili
Abergwili station remains (1992)
General information
Location	Abergwili, Carmarthenshire Wales
Platforms	1
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Llanelly Railway
Pre-grouping	London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
1 June 1865	Opens as Abergwilli
April to June 1880	Station closes
28 July 1893	Renamed Abergwili
9 September 1963	Station closes

Abergwili railway station served the village of Abergwili in Wales. It was the first station after Gwili Junction, the point where the line through it divided from the Carmarthen to Aberystwyth Line.

History

Opened by the Llanelly Railway, the station was absorbed into the London and North Western Railway as part of its ownership of the Central Wales Line. Becoming part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923, it passed on to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. Later transferred to the Western Region of British Railways, it was closed by the British Railways Board.

The site today

The station site remained undeveloped after closure and the platform survived until 1999 when the trackbed was used for the upgrading of the A40 trunk road as part of Carmarthen's eastern bypass. Nothing now remains as the trackbed has been subsumed beneath the new road scheme.

References

• Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-85260-508-1.
• Jowett, A. (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas. Atlantic Publishing. ISBN 0-906899-99-0.
• Llandeilo to Abergwili Line [1]
• Abergwili station on navigable O. S. map

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Carmarthen Town		London and North Western Railway Llanelly Railway		Whitemill

External links

• Railscot Carmarthen Branch (Llanelly Railway and Dock Company)[2]