Glanyrafon railway station

As of 20:19, Friday, December 2, 2016 (UTC)

Glanyrafon
View of Glanyrafon halt (before the 2012 removal of the RETB mast)
Location
Place	Glanyrafon
Area	Ceredigion
Operations
Managed by	Vale of Rheidol Railway
Platforms	1
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Glanyrafon railway station (formerly Glanrafon) is a railway station serving Glanyrafon in Ceredigion in Mid-Wales. It is a request stop on the preserved Vale of Rheidol Railway. It is 2 miles 26 chains (3.74 km) from Aberystwyth and has no surviving station buildings or platforms, passengers are required to step down from the train to the grass below.^[1]

In 2012, an RETB signalling mast, which was part of the Cambrian Line infrastructure, was removed from the station by contractors working for Network Rail, having been in place since the 1980s.

Preceding station	Heritage railways			Following station
Llanbadarn		Vale of Rheidol Railway		Capel Bangor

References

↑ Yonge, John (March 2005) [1990]. Jacobs, Gerald, ed. Railway Track Diagrams 4: Midlands & North West (2nd ed.). Bradford on Avon: Trackmaps. map 23E. ISBN 0-9549866-0-1.

Vale of Rheidol Railway

Rolling stock	Locomotives of the Vale of Rheidol Railway Coaching stock of the Vale of Rheidol Railway

Stations	Aberystwyth Llanbadarn Glanyrafon Capel Bangor Nantyronen Aberffrwd Rheidol Falls Rhiwfron Devil's Bridge

Operators	Cambrian Railways Great Western Railway BR Western Region BR Midland Region Brecon Mountain Railway Phyllis Rampton Narrow Gauge Railway Trust

Coordinates: 52°24′16″N 4°02′15″W / 52.404430°N 4.037630°W / 52.404430; -4.037630

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