The Mawddwy Railway was a rural railway in the Dyfi Valley of mid-Wales, authorised by an Act of Parliament in 1865 and opened in 1867 to connect Dinas Mawddwy with Cemmaes Road station on the Newtown and Machynlleth Railway. Running 6.6 miles through three intermediate stations, the standard-gauge line carried slate from the Dinas Mawddwy quarries along with agricultural produce and local passengers. Its history was unusually troubled: the company was abandoned in 1908, revived as a light railway in 1911, and absorbed into the Great Western Railway in 1923 before nationalisation under British Railways. Passenger services ended in 1931, and the line survived mainly on freight until flood damage from the River Dyfi in 1950 forced its final closure on 1 July 1952.
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Founded Year SignificanceA small Welsh slate-carrying line whose troubled history of abandonment, revival as a light railway, and eventual GWR absorption typifies the fragility of rural Welsh branch lines. 1 In the Other Atlases
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Founded: 1865 (Act of Parliament authorized; opened 1867)
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The Mawddwy Railway was a rural line in the Dyfi Valley in mid-Wales
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was a rural line in the Dyfi Valley in mid-Wales
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The Mawddwy Railway was a rural line in the Dyfi Valley in mid-Wales that connected Dinas Mawddwy with a junction at Cemmaes Road railway station on the Newtown and Machynlleth Railway section of the Cambrian Railways.
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