Vale of Rheidol Railway - The Route

The Route

Vale of Rheidol Railway

not to scale
Legend
End of line
Aberystwyth Station
Various Sheds
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over River Rheidol
crossing
Glanrafon Station
crossing
Capel Bangor Station
crossing
Nantyronen Station
Aberffrwd Station
Rhiedol Falls Station
Rhiwfron Station
Devil's Bridge

The headquarters of the railway are at Aberystwyth where it shares a terminus with the standard gauge main line, trains leaving from the former Carmarthen bay platform.

There are nine stations. Whilst all trains generally stop at block stations, for operational reasons, the other (smaller) stations are request stops. The journey takes one hour in each direction and much of it at a gradient of 1 in 50 (2%).

  • Aberystwyth
  • Llanbadarn (request stop)
  • Glanyrafon (request stop)
  • Capel Bangor
  • Nantyronen(request stop)
  • Aberffrwd
  • Rheidol Falls (request stop)
  • Rhiwfron (request stop)
  • Devil's Bridge

When the lead mines were being worked there was an aerial cableway linking them with Rhiwfron.

The railway had a branch line which ran to Aberystwyth harbour, principally for freight services. The Harbour Branch became redundant with the predominance of tourist passenger operations and was closed and lifted. Little evidence of it remains today.

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