Disused railway lines and closed stations in Carmarthenshire

73 miles of disused railway
44 closed stations
17 stations open today
15 named lost lines

Carmarthenshire has 73 miles of disused railway and 44 closed stations, against 17 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 2.6 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Carmarthen to Aberystwyth Line, with 11 miles of its route inside Carmarthenshire.

See Carmarthenshire’s lost railways on the map

The map opens on the county with the disused lines and closed stations drawn over today’s network. Tap any closed station for its history, or any grey line for its name.

What is left of it

The 73 miles of lost railway in Carmarthenshire break down as 54 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 11 miles with track still in place but no trains, 6.8 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left and 1.4 miles dismantled. These are OpenStreetMap’s own distinctions, made by the people who surveyed each stretch, so a line can appear under more than one state along its length.

Lost railway lines in Carmarthenshire

15 named lines with disused track in the county, longest stretch first. The mileage is the part inside Carmarthenshire; a line crossing the border is counted on both sides.

Line	Miles in county
Carmarthen to Aberystwyth Line	11
Whitland & Cardigan Railway	8.1
Cwmmawr Branch	7.9
Swiss Valley Trail	6.8
Teifi Valley Line	5.9
Llandilo and Carmarthen Line	5.8
Mountain Branch	4.2
Tywi Valley Path	2.2
Rhos Colliery	1.8
Llanelly Railway	1.7
Kidwelly Branch	1.3
Hendy Loop	0.6
Limestone Branch	0.6
Park Siding	0.5
Llanelly and Mynydd Mawr Railway	0.4

Closed railway stations in Carmarthenshire

All 44 closed and former stations in Carmarthenshire, A to Z. Each name opens the map on the station; the Wikipedia link, where there is one, has its history.

Stations still open in Carmarthenshire

17 stations in Carmarthenshire still have a train service. The busiest are Carmarthen (439,846 a year), Llanelli (392,682 a year), Pembrey and Burry Port (130,610 a year), Whitland (44,580 a year) and Kidwelly (34,566 a year). Every one has its own page, with the stations you can reach from it directly and how often the trains run: see the A to Z of stations.

Lost railways nearby

Swansea, Neath Port Talbot, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and Powys.

About these figures

The disused lines are the stretches OpenStreetMap records as disused, abandoned, razed or dismantled railway, measured segment by segment and given to the county each segment lies in. The closed stations are Wikidata’s record of British railway stations no longer in service, kept where they are not within a few hundred metres of a station still open. The boundary is today’s principal area, from the Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024). Historic county lines were different, and a closed station a mile over the border is on the neighbouring page.

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