Overgrown railway trackbed south-west of Tregaron, Ceredigion
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Image: © Roger D Kidd Taken: 14 Jul 2011
Near Trecefel farm, and looking past the ivy which smothers the side of the old bridge, this is where the former Manchester and Milford Railway went on its way towards Lampeter. The Manchester and Milford Railway (which went to neither place) closed in 1965. 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.