Footpath and cycle route near Ystradmeurig, Ceredigion
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Footpath and cycle route near Ystradmeurig, Ceredigion
Image: © Roger D Kidd Taken: 10 Jul 2011
Looking towards Aberystwyth, this is the course of a dismantled railway line. Here, having crossed part of the Cors Caron bog, it swings westwards past the village of Ystradmeurig. This image was taken from near the site of the former Strata Florida Station. Station House is on the right. There is an image of the station in 1904 here: http://www.hanesybont.org.uk/corscaron/yrailway.htm The Manchester and Milford Railway (which went to neither place) closed in 1965, but the track bed adjacent to and across part of the Cors Caron nature reserve is now used as a public footpath and the National Cycle Route No 82 (Fishguard to Machynlleth via Lampeter and Aberystwyth). Wikipedia states that this was the Carmarthen to Aberystwyth Line, a standard gauge branch line of the Great Western Railway in Wales. As a result of floods and the Beeching Axe, the line closed throughout to passengers from 1965, and to freight from Pont Llanio creamery near Tregaron to Aberaeron Junction near Lampeter in 1970.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.287629
Longitude
-3.89177