Llanelly Railway

The Llanelly Railway and Dock Company was an early Welsh railway system that opened its first short line and a wet dock at Llanelli in 1834. It went on to build a longer line serving pits in the Amman Valley and reaching Llandilo by 1857, and from 1858 it leased and worked the Vale of Towy Railway on to Llandovery. The company later obtained authorization to connect its network to Swansea and Carmarthen, but the failure of a contractor caused financial difficulty, and after a financial reconstruction the Swansea and Carmarthen lines passed to the London and North Western Railway while the original core system was taken over by the Great Western Railway. The Swansea to Llandovery line became part of the Central Wales Line, though after the 1960s only the Llanelli to Llandovery line and short colliery connections in the Amman Valley remained in use.