Caersws railway station

Caersws
Welsh: Caersŵs
Location
Place	Caersws
Local authority	Powys
Coordinates	52°30′58″N 3°25′59″W / 52.516°N 3.433°WCoordinates: 52°30′58″N 3°25′59″W / 52.516°N 3.433°W
Grid reference	SO028918
Operations
Station code	CWS
Managed by	Arriva Trains Wales
Number of platforms	1
DfT category	F1
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2010/11	42,272
2011/12	44,890
2012/13	46,486
2013/14	45,900
2014/15	49,250
History
Key dates	Opened 3 January 1863[1]
Original company	Newtown and Machynlleth Railway
Pre-grouping	Cambrian Railways
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Caersws from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
UK Railways portal

Caersws railway station is a railway station on the Cambrian Line in mid-Wales, serving the village of Caersws. It is notable that there is a distance of 22 miles between this station and Machynlleth, the longest distance between stations in Wales.

History

The notable Welsh romantic poet John Ceiriog Hughes was employed as a station master and Manager of the Van Railway at Caersws railway station from 1868 until his death in 1887.^[2]

From 1871 to 1940 the Van Railway terminated at Caersws. The station was built by the Newtown and Machynlleth Railway of the Cambrian Railways in the 1890s. Originally there was a passing loop, a goods shed, a water tower and a ticket office and a signal box - the latter remained in use until March 2011 as a gate box to supervise the station level crossing.

In February 2013, Caersws station won the "Wales’ Best Unstaffed Train Station" award, supported by Keep Wales Tidy.^[3]

Services

There is a basic two-hourly service in each direction Mon-Sat, with some additional services in the morning & evening (most of which run between Shrewsbury & Aberystwyth only). Sundays also run every two hours, though there is only a limited service (one in winter, three in summer) along the Cambrian Coast line to Pwllheli.^[4][5]

Gallery

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  Bilingual sign at Caersws station in the early 2000s
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  Caersws station in the early 2000s
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  Caersws station in the mid-2000s

References

1. Butt 1995, p. 51.
2. C P Gasquoine (1973). The Story of the Cambrian. Christopher Davies Ltd.
3. http://www.keepwalestidy.org/10408
4. Arriva Trains Wales Timetables Retrieved 6 May 2016
5. Table 76 National Rail timetable, May 2016

Sources

• Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.

External links

• Train times and station information for Caersws railway station from National Rail

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Newtown		Arriva Trains Wales Cambrian Line		Machynlleth