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Cambrian Railways

Index Cambrian Railways

Cambrian Railways owned of track over a large area of mid-Wales. [1]

65 relations: Aberangell railway station, Abermule, Aberystwith and Welsh Coast Railway, Act of Parliament, Brecon, Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway, Cambrian Heritage Railways, Cambrian Line, Cambrian Railways works, Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway, Cholsey and Wallingford Railway, Corris Railway, Ffestiniog Railway, Friog, George Vane-Tempest, 5th Marquess of Londonderry, Great Western Railway, Hay, Head-on collision, Hendre-Ddu Tramway, Heritage railway, Kerry Tramway, Kerry, Powys, Listed building, Llanfyllin Branch, Llangynog, Llanidloes and Newtown Railway, Llanymynech, London and North Western Railway, London Midland Region of British Railways, Machynlleth railway station, Manchester and Milford Railway, Marquess of Londonderry, Mawddwy Railway, Merionethshire, Mid-Wales Railway, Minffordd railway station, Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal, Motive power depot, Newtown and Machynlleth Railway, Oswestry and Newtown Railway, Oswestry railway station, Oswestry, Ellesmere and Whitchurch Railway, Plynlimon and Hafan Tramway, Potteries, Shrewsbury and North Wales Railway, Project Gutenberg, Railways Act 1921, Railways of Shropshire, Royal assent, Ruabon–Barmouth line, Shropshire, ..., Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Railway, Swindon and Cricklade Railway, Talyllyn Junction railway station, Talyllyn Railway, Tanat Valley Light Railway, The Old Bell Museum, Three Cocks, Tywyn railway station, Vale of Rheidol Railway, Van Railway, Wales, Welshampton, Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway, Wetherspoons, Wrexham and Ellesmere Railway. Expand index (15 more) »

Aberangell railway station

Aberangell railway station was an intermediate railway station on the Mawddwy Railway which ran from Cemmaes Road to Dinas Mawddy in the Welsh county of Merionethshire.

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Abermule

Abermule (Aber-miwl) is a village lying on the River Severn 6 km (4 miles) northeast of Newtown in Powys, mid Wales.

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Aberystwith and Welsh Coast Railway

The Aberystwith and Welsh Coast Railway was a standard gauge railway built in 1863 connecting major towns on the Welsh coast.

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Act of Parliament

Acts of Parliament, also called primary legislation, are statutes passed by a parliament (legislature).

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Brecon

Brecon (Aberhonddu), archaically known as Brecknock, is a market town and community in Powys, Wales, with a population in 2001 of 7,901, increasing to 8,250 at the 2011 census.

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Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway

The Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway (B&MR) was a railway company in Wales.

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Cambrian Heritage Railways

The Cambrian Heritage Railways are a heritage railway company, trust and society based at both Llynclys and in Oswestry in its newly restored railway station, Shropshire, England.

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Cambrian Line

The Cambrian Line (Welsh: Rheilffordd y Cambrian) is a railway that runs from Shrewsbury (in Shropshire, England) to Aberystwyth (in Ceredigion) and Pwllheli (in Gwynedd), both on the west coast of Wales.

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Cambrian Railways works

The Cambrian Railways works is a former railway engineering building located in Oswestry, Shropshire.

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Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway

The Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway is a preserved standard gauge heritage railway with its headquarters and (at present) only station at Chinnor in South Oxfordshire, England.

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Cholsey and Wallingford Railway

The Cholsey and Wallingford Railway is a long standard gauge heritage railway in the English county of Oxfordshire.

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Corris Railway

The Corris Railway (Welsh: Rheilffordd Corris) is a narrow gauge preserved railway based in Corris on the border between Merionethshire (now Gwynedd) and Montgomeryshire (now Powys) in Mid-Wales.

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Ffestiniog Railway

The Ffestiniog Railway (Rheilffordd Ffestiniog) is a narrow-gauge heritage railway, located in Gwynedd, Wales.

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Friog

Friog is a small village in North Wales, near Fairbourne.

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George Vane-Tempest, 5th Marquess of Londonderry

George Henry Robert Charles William Vane-Tempest, 5th Marquess of Londonderry KP (26 April 1821 – 6 November 1884), styled Viscount Seaham between 1823 and 1854 and known as The Earl Vane between 1854 and 1872, was a British aristocrat, businessman, diplomat and Conservative politician.

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Great Western Railway

The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the south-west and west of England, the Midlands, and most of Wales.

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Hay

Hay is grass, legumes, or other herbaceous plants that have been cut, dried, and stored for use as animal fodder, particularly for grazing animals such as cattle, horses, goats, and sheep.

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Head-on collision

A head-on collision is a traffic collision where the front ends of two vehicles such as cars, trains, ships or planes hit each other in opposite directions, as opposed to a side collision or rear-end collision.

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Hendre-Ddu Tramway

The Hendre-Ddu Tramway was a narrow gauge industrial railway built in 1867 in Wales to connect the Hendre-Ddu slate quarry to Aberangell station on the Mawddwy Railway.

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Heritage railway

A heritage railway is a railway operated as living history to re-create or preserve railway scenes of the past.

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Kerry Tramway

The Kerry Tramway was a narrow gauge railway built in 1887 to serve the timber workings and slab quarry to the south of the village of Kerry, near Newtown in mid Wales.

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Kerry, Powys

Kerry (Ceri) is a village and geographically large community in Powys, Wales.

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Listed building

A listed building, or listed structure, is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, Cadw in Wales, and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in Northern Ireland.

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Llanfyllin Branch

The Llanfyllin Branch was a railway line extension of the Oswestry and Newtown Railway to access the limestone resources within the Llanfyllin area; it opened in 1863.

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Llangynog

Llangynog is a village and community which lies at the confluence of the Afon Eirth and the Afon Tanat at the foot of the Berwyn range in Powys, Wales.

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Llanidloes and Newtown Railway

The Llanidloes and Newtown Railway was an early Welsh railway, and the first to be built by David Davies, Llandinam.

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Llanymynech

Llanymynech is a village straddling the border between Montgomeryshire/Powys, Wales, and Shropshire, England, about 9 miles (14 km) north of the Welsh town of Welshpool.

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London and North Western Railway

The London and North Western Railway (LNWR, L&NWR) was a British railway company between 1846 and 1922.

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London Midland Region of British Railways

The London Midland Region (LMR) was one of the six regions created on the formation of the nationalised British Railways (BR) and initially consisted of ex-London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) lines in England and Wales.

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Machynlleth railway station

Machynlleth railway station is a railway station on the Cambrian Line in mid-Wales, serving the historic town of Machynlleth.

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Manchester and Milford Railway

The Manchester and Milford Railway was a Welsh railway company, intended to connect the industrial areas of Northwest England with a deep-water port on Milford Haven, giving an alternative to the Port of Liverpool.

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Marquess of Londonderry

Marquess of Londonderry, of the County of Londonderry, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland.

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Mawddwy Railway

| The Mawddwy Railway was a rural line in the Dovey Valley in mid-Wales that connected Dinas Mawddwy with a junction at railway station on the Newtown and Machynlleth Railway section of the Cambrian Railways.

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Merionethshire

Merionethshire or Merioneth (Meirionnydd or Sir Feirionnydd) is one of thirteen historic counties of Wales, a vice county and a former administrative county.

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Mid-Wales Railway

The Mid-Wales Railway (MWR) was an early railway company operating in Mid-Wales.

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Minffordd railway station

Minffordd railway station (translation Roadside, literally Lip of the Road) station, is actually two adjacent stations operated entirely independently of each other.

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Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal

The Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal (Camlas Sir Fynwy a Brycheiniog) is a small network of canals in South Wales.

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Motive power depot

The motive power depot (MPD, or railway depot) is the place where locomotives are usually housed, repaired and maintained when not being used.

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Newtown and Machynlleth Railway

The Newtown and Machynlleth Railway (N&MR) was a short railway created to allow the Oswestry and Newtown Railway and the Mid-Wales Railway access to the Mid-Wales market town of Machynlleth, from their communal station at Newtown, Powys.

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Oswestry and Newtown Railway

The Oswestry and Newtown Railway was a railway line that ran from Mid Wales to the Shropsire border town of Oswestry, later a constituent part of the Cambrian Railways.

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Oswestry railway station

Oswestry railway station is a Grade II listed heritage railway station in Oswestry, Shropshire, England.

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Oswestry, Ellesmere and Whitchurch Railway

The Oswestry, Ellesmere and Whitchurch Railway was a railway line that ran from Oswestry in Shropshire to Whitchurch, Shropshire, via Ellesmere and the Welsh borders.

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Plynlimon and Hafan Tramway

The Plynlimon and Hafan Tramway was a gauge narrow gauge railway in Cardiganshire (now Sir Ceredigion) in Mid Wales.

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Potteries, Shrewsbury and North Wales Railway

| The Potteries, Shrewsbury & North Wales Railway, (locally known as the 'Potts'), was a project to build a line from the Potteries via Market Drayton, Shropshire, to quarries at Nantmawr and Criggion, Wales.

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Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks".

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Railways Act 1921

The Railways Act 1921 (c. 55), also known as the Grouping Act, was an Act of Parliament enacted by the British government and intended to stem the losses being made by many of the country's 120 railway companies, move the railways away from internal competition and retain some of the benefits which the country had derived from a government-controlled railway during and after the Great War of 1914–1918.

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Railways of Shropshire

The English county of Shropshire has a fairly large railway network, with 19 National Rail stations on various national lines, as well as a small number of heritage and freight lines, including the famous heritage Severn Valley Railway running along its eastern border with Worcestershire.

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Royal assent

Royal assent or sanction is the method by which a country's monarch (possibly through a delegated official) formally approves an act of that nation's parliament.

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Ruabon–Barmouth line

The Ruabon–Barmouth line was a standard-gauge branch line of the Great Western Railway across the north of Wales which connected Ruabon, in the east, with Barmouth on the west coast.

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Shropshire

Shropshire (alternatively Salop; abbreviated, in print only, Shrops; demonym Salopian) is a county in the West Midlands of England, bordering Wales to the west, Cheshire to the north, Staffordshire to the east, and Worcestershire and Herefordshire to the south.

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Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Railway

The Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Light Railway was a railway running from Shrewsbury, England to Llanymynech, Wales, with a branch to Criggion.

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Swindon and Cricklade Railway

The Swindon & Cricklade Railway is a heritage railway in Wiltshire, England, that operates on a short section of the old Midland and South Western Junction Railway line between Swindon and Cricklade.

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Talyllyn Junction railway station

Talyllyn Junction was a railway junction located east of Brecon, Powys, opened in 1863.

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Talyllyn Railway

The Talyllyn Railway (Rheilffordd Talyllyn) is a narrow gauge preserved railway in Wales running for from Tywyn on the Mid-Wales coast to Nant Gwernol near the village of Abergynolwyn.

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Tanat Valley Light Railway

The Tanat Valley Light Railway (TVLR) was a long standard gauge light railway.

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The Old Bell Museum

The Old Bell Museum is a former 16th-century inn, converted into a museum and run by volunteers from the Montgomery Civic Society of Powys.

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Three Cocks

Three Cocks or Aberllynfi is a village near Glasbury in Powys, Wales.

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Tywyn railway station

Tywyn railway station serves the town of Tywyn in Gwynedd, Wales.

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Vale of Rheidol Railway

The Vale of Rheidol Railway (Rheilffordd Cwm Rheidol) is a narrow gauge heritage railway, opened in 1902, that runs for between Aberystwyth and Devil's Bridge in the county of Ceredigion, Wales.

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Van Railway

The Van Railway was a standard gauge railway in mid Wales.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.

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Welshampton

Welshampton is a small village located on the A495 road in Shropshire, England, near to the town of Ellesmere.

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Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway

The Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway (W&LLR) (Rheilffordd y Trallwng a Llanfair Caereinion) is a narrow gauge heritage railway in Powys, Wales.

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Wetherspoons

J D Wetherspoon plc, branded as Wetherspoon, is a pub company in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.

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Wrexham and Ellesmere Railway

| The Wrexham and Ellesmere Railway was a railway line that ran from Wrexham in North Wales, to Ellesmere in Shropshire, England.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambrian_Railways

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