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Pantyffynnon Road, AMMANFORD, SA18 3HW

Pantyffynnon station on the Heart of Wales line.

Opened in 1857 by the "Llanelly" Railway, later part of the Great Western Railway, on the line from Llanelli to Llandeilo. View north towards Parcyrhun Halt and Llandeilo (left) and Brynamman West (right, freight only). Refurbishment was taking place at the time this image was taken.

A train for Cardiff crosses the level crossing and enters the station.

Pantyffynnon station, being viewed from a short distance down the "Brynamman branch" (closed to public services in 1964). Today, the only passenger service that this station serves is the Heart of Wales service which runs from Swansea to Shrewsbury. The first service of the day can be seen just leaving the station towards Swansea. A previous picture submitted Image shows the line in the foreground to be quite derelict but work has been conducted to maintain and restore the line in recent times.

After many years of being mothballed, the Amman Valley branch line is currently seeing new life with up to three coal trains a week running up and down to service the open cast mine near Gwaun-Cae-Guerwen. Here we see the train just leaving the Heart of Wales Line next to the Pantyffynnon signal box, which controls the entire length of the Heart of Wales line to Craven Arms and also allows a single train to access the Amman Valley Branch at any time.

To the left is the Heart of Wales line and to the right is the "Brynamman Branch" which up until the early '90s, was in use as a mineral line but has recently had £1 million invested in its refurbishment.

Here, the north bound Heart of Wales line train can be seen stopping just short of the station to meet with the signal man. This isn't a social occasion - a physical token is passed to the driver to allow passage between here and Llandeilo, where the line is single track and has no passing places. The signal box controls the entire Heart of Wales line from Llandilo Junction near Llanelli to Craven Arms near Shrewsbury. The junction name takes on the old spelling for Llandeilo.

A semaphore railway signal at Pantyffynnon railway station, part of the Heart Of Wales railways. Semaphore signals are rapidly becoming a rare sight on UK railways, with the electric light signals, which need less maintenance replacing them. A weighted counterbalance can be seen just below the signal itself. This is designed to default to the "stop" signal should the cable controlling the signal break.

This abandoned Victorian post box is now disused. It stands on the platform of Pantyffynnon train station.