Glanyrafon railway station
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]
Glanyrafon | |
|---|---|
| Station on heritage railway | |
 View of Glanyrafon halt (before the 2012 removal of the RETB mast) | |
| General information | |
| Location | Glanyrafon, Ceredigion Wales |
| Coordinates | 52.404515°N 4.037931°W |
| Operated by | Vale of Rheidol Railway |
| Platforms | 1 |
| History | |
| Original company | Vale of Rheidol Railway |
| Pre-grouping | Cambrian Railways |
| Post-grouping | Great Western Railway |
| Key dates | |
| 7 May 1904 | Opened |
| 31 August 1939 | Temporarily closed |
| 23 July 1945 | Reopened |
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.
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