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Maesyllan, LLANIDLOES, SY18 6DF

The former railway station is adjacent to the active fire station.

Many Victorian buildings can be seen from this view.

Opened in 1864 on the Mid Wales Railway line, this neo Georgian building was given this grand country house style appearance since the Cambrian Railways were going to base their headquarters here; they moved in to Oswestry railway station by the time Llanidloes station opened. The railway station closed on 31st December 1962, and the railway line was removed some years later. The site of the railway is now the A470 road, where it was laid on the old railway track for the town bypass road. The building now houses JJP Services (garden machinery supplier, I think) and Wedding Belles At Lauras (wedding shop).

The fire station at Llanidloes is adjacent to the former railway station.

Placed on No. 5 Maesyllan are the headquarters of NatSol, which manufactures compost toilets.

Looking across from the corner of Great Oak Street and High Street.

As the railways rather belatedly spread into mid-Wales, Llanidloes seemed destined to become the meeting point of three of them, namely the Newtown and Llanidloes from the north, the Mid Wales from the south, and the Manchester and Milford from the south west. Consequently by agreement the Newtown and Llanidloes built this imposing station building to house the offices of the three companies. It also extended its line a short distance to the south to Penpompren to meet the lines of the other two companies. In the event, the Manchester and Milford failed to complete its line over the Cambrian mountains and never used the station, while the Newtown and Llanidloes joined with other lines to form the Cambrian Railways, with its headquarters in Oswestry, so the building was rather underused, particularily after the Cambrian absorbed the Mid Wales some years later. Llanidloes lost its passenger service and also the line to the south in 1962, with the northern line used for some freight until closed in 1967. Thereafter the building was left idle, until splendidly restored in 1984 to house local offices and businesses.

Preserved in a tight alcove left in a modern building built around it in Cambrian Place.

A grand station building for a provincial small town but a gem.

This OS cut mark can be found on No6 Cambrian Place. It marks a point 172.252m above mean sea level.