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Caersws railway station

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Though unstaffed, the station has a ticket machine installed. Train running information is offered via CIS displays, automated announcements, timetable poster boards and a customer help point. There is also payphone available. Step-free access is available from the entrance to the platform.
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started /terminated at Caersws serving lead mines ran from 1871 until 1940. There was a separate station and yard about 100 yards south west of the Cambrian Railway station. Passenger services operated from 1873 until 1879.
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After closure the station building was sold and was used by various companies as offices. In 2024 the station building was still standing with a portion of the platform.
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There is a basic two-hourly service in each direction Mon-Sat, with some additional services in the morning and evening (most of which run between Shrewsbury and
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The station was threatened with closure in 1964 along with all of the other wayside stops on the former Cambrian main line (as a consequence of the
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only). Sundays also run every two hours, though there is only a limited service (one in winter, three in summer) along the Cambrian Coast line to
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The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present
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in the 1863. Originally there was a passing loop, a goods shed, a water tower and a ticket office and a
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In February 2013, Caersws station won the "Wales’ Best Unstaffed Train Station" award, supported by
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in December that year to act as the notional railhead for the town of
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at Caersws railway station from 1868 until his death in 1887.
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Welsh
National Rail

Caersws
Powys
52°30′58″N 3°25′59″W / 52.516°N 3.433°W / 52.516; -3.433
Grid reference
SO028918
Transport for Wales
DfT category
Newtown and Machynlleth Railway
Cambrian Railways
Listed Building
Office of Rail and Road
Cambrian Line
Wales
Caersws
Machynlleth
Newtown and Machynlleth Railway
Cambrian Railways
signal box
level crossing
Beeching cuts
Tom Fraser
Llanidloes
Mid-Wales Railway
Keep Wales Tidy
Aberystwyth
Pwllheli
Van Railway

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