Index
- Carmarthen to Newcastle Emlyn Home
- Carmarthen Junction
- Carmarthen 1st
- Carmarthen 2nd
- Bronwydd Arms
- Conwil
- Llanpumpsaint
- Pencader
- Pencader Junction
- Llandyssul
- Pentrecourt Platform
- Henllan
- Newcastle Emlyn
Carmarthen Junction
(1852 - 1926)
The South Wales Railway was the first to reach Carmarthen. The railway was built to ship coal from the South Wales valleys to London and the Carmarthen Junction Station
opened in September 1852 with only one platform
The completed station had two platforms, two lines and an overall roof. There were two facing platforms, with a forecourt and the main station building on the down side and waiting rooms on the up side. The goods yard which, by the 1880s, had six sidings to the north of the station on the down side. The yard had a large brick goods shed and a 2-ton crane, cattle dock and pens
The GWR, who had been reluctant to build the branch line, ensured that work progressed as slowly as possible, taking over ten years to reach Newcastle Emlyn
The timetable for 1902 showed a daily service of four trains in each direction between Carmarthen and Newcastle Emlyn. On Saturdays there were two extra trains to Llandyssul only. There was no Sunday service
The Newcastle Emlyn branch was never busy but the Second World War brought a new lease of life as a relief route providing a vital link for northbound traffic, with regular movements of heavy munitions to Chester. After the war the line settled back to a quieter existence
With the ever-increasing popularity of the car, especially after WW2, the branch lines clearly had no future under a nationalised British Railways. Passenger services on the branch to Newcastle Emlyn branch, were closed on September 13 1952
Two years after its closure, the Gwili Railway Preservation Company was formed with the ambition to preserve at least eight miles of track of the former route, from Abergwili Junction along the Gwili Valley to the station site at Llanpumpsaint
The completed station had two platforms, two lines and an overall roof. There were two facing platforms, with a forecourt and the main station building on the down side and waiting rooms on the up side. The goods yard which, by the 1880s, had six sidings to the north of the station on the down side. The yard had a large brick goods shed and a 2-ton crane, cattle dock and pens
The GWR, who had been reluctant to build the branch line, ensured that work progressed as slowly as possible, taking over ten years to reach Newcastle Emlyn
The timetable for 1902 showed a daily service of four trains in each direction between Carmarthen and Newcastle Emlyn. On Saturdays there were two extra trains to Llandyssul only. There was no Sunday service
The Newcastle Emlyn branch was never busy but the Second World War brought a new lease of life as a relief route providing a vital link for northbound traffic, with regular movements of heavy munitions to Chester. After the war the line settled back to a quieter existence
With the ever-increasing popularity of the car, especially after WW2, the branch lines clearly had no future under a nationalised British Railways. Passenger services on the branch to Newcastle Emlyn branch, were closed on September 13 1952
Two years after its closure, the Gwili Railway Preservation Company was formed with the ambition to preserve at least eight miles of track of the former route, from Abergwili Junction along the Gwili Valley to the station site at Llanpumpsaint
