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Sugar Loaf railway station is a railway station in Powys,Wales, and is part of the Heart of Wales Line.It is the most geographically remote station in Wales. The station is located one mile (1.5 kilometres) northeast of a small but prominent knoll known as Sugar Loaf, around which the A483 road loops.
Powys (/ ˈ p oʊ ɪ s, ˈ p aʊ ɪ s / POH-iss, POW-iss, [4] Welsh:) is a county and preserved county in Wales. [a] It borders Gwynedd, Denbighshire, and Wrexham to the north; the English ceremonial counties of Shropshire and Herefordshire to the east; Monmouthshire, Blaenau Gwent, Merthyr Tydfil, Caerphilly, Rhondda Cynon Taf, and Neath Port Talbot to the south; and Carmarthenshire and ...
The name Powys is thought to derive from Latin pagus 'the countryside' and pagenses 'dwellers in the countryside', also the origins of French "pays" and English "peasant". ". During the Roman Empire, this region was organised into a province, with the capital at Viroconium Cornoviorum (modern Wroxeter), the fourth-largest Roman city in B
The Mid-Wales line passenger service was withdrawn on 31 December 1962, though trains to and from this route latterly started and terminated at Moat Lane Junction. Services to Oswestry and Whitchurch via the former O&NR Cambrian main line ended in January 1965, when the route east of Buttington closed to passenger traffic as a consequence of ...
Dovey Junction (/ ˈ d ʌ v iː-/ DUH-vee-; Welsh: Cyffordd Dyfi) is a railway station on the Cambrian Line in Wales. It is the junction where the line splits into the line to Aberystwyth and the Cambrian Coast Line to Pwllheli. Passenger services are provided by Transport for Wales. There is a single island platform.
Welshpool railway station is a railway station on the Cambrian Line in Powys, mid-Wales.It was first opened in August 1860, but the current station was opened in May 1992 to allow for track re-alignment, the same day that the original closed, and is a short distance from the original.
Knucklas railway station serves the village of Knucklas, Powys, Wales, 34 + 3 ⁄ 4 miles (55.9 km) south west of Shrewsbury. This railway station is located on a steep hill above the village. It is a request stop , so intending passengers have to signal to the driver that they wish to board the train, while those wishing to alight from the ...
In 1870 the London and North Western Railway took over and the line subsequently became a well used through route between Shrewsbury and Swansea, with passenger trains from the station conveying through coaches to destinations as varied as Liverpool, Manchester, York, Birmingham New Street and London Euston. Llangammarch and the other towns in ...