Disused railway lines and closed stations in Powys

187 miles of disused railway
81 closed stations
17 stations open today
29 named lost lines

Powys has 187 miles of disused railway and 81 closed stations, against 17 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 4.8 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Moat Lane Junction to Talyllyn, with 27 miles of its route inside Powys.

See Powys’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 187 miles of lost railway in Powys break down as 167 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 15 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left and 4.8 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 Powys

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

Line	Miles in county
Moat Lane Junction to Talyllyn	27
Neath and Brecon Line	22
Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway	13
Hereford, Hay & Brecon	13
Tanat Valley Railway	11
Llanfyllin Line	8.9
Elan Valley Railway	8.1
Brecon Forest Tramroad	7.9
Llanidloes and Newtown Railway	7.3
Gobowen and Nantmawr Quarry Branch	6.8
Van Branch	6.6
Great Western Railway (Moat Lane & Brecon Section)	6.3
Ystradgynlais Branch	6.2
Leominster and Kington Railway	4.2
Llangurig Branch	4.0
Kerry Branch	3.9
Dinas Mawddwy Light Railway	3.7
Criggion Branch	2.1
Moat Lane & Brecon Section	1.5
Caelliau Branch	1.4
Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway	1.1
Brinore Tramroad	0.9
Rock Siding	0.9
Route 43	0.6
Joe Deakins Road	0.6
Corris Railway	0.4
Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway (Torpantau Tunnel)	0.4
Glasbury Cutting Nature Reserve	0.4
Builth Loop	0.3

Closed railway stations in Powys

All 81 closed and former stations in Powys, 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 Powys

17 stations in Powys still have a train service. The busiest are Welshpool (176,730 a year), Newtown (171,366 a year), Machynlleth (128,212 a year), Caersws (69,134 a year) and Dovey Junction (41,454 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

Ceredigion, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Merthyr Tydfil, Blaenau Gwent, Carmarthenshire, Monmouthshire and Rhondda Cynon Taf.

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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