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Cambrian Railways owned 230 miles of track over a large area of mid-Wales. The system was an amalgamation of a number of railways that were incorporated in 1864, 1865 and 1904. The Cambrian connected with two of the larger railways to give connections to the North West of England, via the London and North Western Railway; and with the Great Western Railway for connections between London and North Wales. The Cambrian Railways were absorbed by the Great Western Railway on 1 January 1922 as a result of the Railways Act 1921. The name is continued today in the route known as the Cambrian Line. This article is about the country. ...
The London and North Western Railway (LNWR) was formed in 1846 by the merger of three railway companies - the Grand Junction Railway, London and Birmingham and Manchester and Birmingham. ...
The original Bristol Temple Meads station, first terminus of the GWR, is the building to the left of this picture The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company, linking South West England, the West Country and South Wales with London. ...
is the 1st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Railways Act of 1921, also known as the Grouping Act, was an enactment by the British government of David Lloyd George intended to stem the losses being made by many of the countrys 120 railway companies, move the railways away from internal competition, and to retain some of...
The Cambrian Line is a railway from Shrewsbury (in Shropshire, England) to Welshpool, Aberystwyth and Pwllheli. ...
The Cambrian Railways System
Circa 1921 map of the Cambrian Railways Image File history File links Size of this preview: 399 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (1341 × 2014 pixel, file size: 227 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Cambrian Railways map c. ...
Image File history File links Size of this preview: 399 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (1341 × 2014 pixel, file size: 227 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Cambrian Railways map c. ...
Constituent railways The earliest section of the Cambrian was the section from Three Cocks to Talyllyn. This had been opened in 1816 as part of the Hay Railway, a tram-road worked by horses connecting the town of Hay with the Brecknock and Abergavenny Canal at Brecon. The western section was sold to the Brecon and Merthyr Railway; the eastern section became part of the Mid-Wales Railway (see below). Talyllyn is a name used in North Wales. ...
For other uses, see Hay (disambiguation). ...
The Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal is a small network of canals in South Wales. ...
The Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal basin at Brecon, the starting point of the Taff Trail. ...
BRECON and MERTHYR RAILWAY // The Routes The Brecon and Merthyr Junction Railway was one of several railways that served the industrial areas of South Wales and Monmouthshire. ...
In the following list the dates are: date of incorporation; opening date
The Wrexham and Ellesmere Railway opened in 1895. Wrexham was the largest town served by the Cambrian. is the 157th day of the year (158th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1855 (MDCCCLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...
is the 216th day of the year (217th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
1853 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...
is the 208th day of the year (209th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
1857 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...
is the 213th day of the year (214th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1861 (MDCCCLXI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...
The Aberystwyth and Welsh Coast Railway was a standard gauge railway built in 1863 connecting major towns on the Welsh coast. ...
is the 207th day of the year (208th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1861 (MDCCCLXI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...
The Mid Wales Railway was a standard gauge railway opened in 1864 as a North-South route serving central Welsh towns including Llanidloes, Rhayader, Builth Wells and Brecon. ...
is the 213th day of the year (214th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1859 (MDCCCLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...
is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
1864 (MDCCCLXIV) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ...
is the 1st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
For the toll-free telephone number see Toll-free telephone number Year 1888 (MDCCCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Friday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...
is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
1904 (MCMIV) was a leap year starting on a Friday (see link for calendar). ...
823 The Countess and 822 The Earl - the two original W&LLR engines. ...
is the 94th day of the year (95th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
1900 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Friday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ...
is the 309th day of the year (310th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
A scene on a heritage railway. ...
Llangynog is dwarfed by mountains on all sides Llangynog (grid reference SJ053261) lies at the confluence of Afon Eirth and the Afon Tanat at the foot of the Berwyn range in Powys, Wales. ...
is the 5th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
1904 (MCMIV) was a leap year starting on a Friday (see link for calendar). ...
The Mawddwy Railway was a rural line in the Dovey Valley in mid-Wales that connected Cemmaes Road and the Cambrian Railway with Dinas Mawddwy. ...
is the 186th day of the year (187th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
1865 (MDCCCLXV) is a common year starting on Sunday. ...
Train taking on water, Vale of Rheidol Railway The Vale of Rheidol Railway is a narrow-gauge (1 foot 11¾ inches) heritage railway that runs for 11¾ miles between Aberystwyth and Devils Bridge (Pont yr Fynach (Welsh) - Bridge over the Mynach) - in Wales, UK. It was the last steam line...
Branch lines (The information in this section was taken largely from The Railway Year Book 1912.) Abermule is a village in Powys, mid Wales. ...
Kerry is a small village in Powys, mid-Wales. ...
Morfa Mawddach railway station in Gwynedd, Wales, on the Cambrian Coast Railway from Dovey Junction was formerly a junction station (known as Barmouth Junction) with the branch line from Dolgellau (closed in 1965). ...
Dolgellau (pronounced , occasionally ) is a market town in Gwynedd, north-west Wales, lying on the River Wnion, a tributary of the Mawddach. ...
Feeder Lines The Cambrian had connections with many independent lines, including:
Narrow Gauge Maespoeth Junction locomotive shed in the early 1980s, members of the Corris Railway Society at work restoring the line The Corris Railway (Welsh: Rheilffordd Corris) is a narrow gauge 23 (686mm) preserved railway line along the Dulas Valley on the border between Merionethshire (now Gwynedd) and Montgomeryshire (now Powys...
Machynlleth railway station is a railway station on the Cambrian Line in mid-Wales, serving the historic town of Machynlleth. ...
The Ffestiniog Railway (Welsh Rheilffordd Ffestiniog) is a narrow-gauge heritage railway, located in Snowdonia in north west Wales. ...
The upper-level, narrow-gauge station at Minffordd Minffordd (translation Lip of the Road) is the interchange station (called Minffordd Junction by the Victorians) opened on 1 August 1872 at the point where the then newly built Cambrian Railways line from Dovey Junction to Pwllheli passes under the existing narrow...
The Kerry Tramway was a 2 ft (610 mm) gauge narrow gauge railway built in 1887 to serve the timber workings and slab quarry to the south of the village of Kerry, near Newtown in mid Wales. ...
Kerry is a small village in Powys, mid-Wales. ...
The Plynlimon and Hafan Tramway was a narrow gauge 2 3 (686mm) railway that ran from the village of Talybont into the foothills of Plynlimon Fawr. ...
The Talyllyn Railway (Welsh: Rheilffordd Talyllyn) is a 2 ft 3 in (686 mm) narrow gauge preserved railway line running for 7¼ miles (11. ...
Tywyn railway station serves the town of Tywyn in Gwynedd, Wales. ...
Standard Gauge This project, backed by the North Staffordshire Railway, aimed to build a line from Market Drayton, Shropshire, England to Porthmadog, Wales. ...
The Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Railway was a railway running from Shrewsbury, England to Llanymynech, Wales. ...
A town in Powys, Wales about 9 miles (14 kilometres) north of Welshpool. ...
Locomotives
 The "latest Cambrian Passenger Express Locomotive", circa 1921 At the grouping in 1922, 94 standard-gauge engines and five narrow-gauge engines were transferred to the GWR, identified by type and builder at Locomotives of the Great Western Railway. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 335 pixelsFull resolution (1068 × 447 pixel, file size: 167 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Cambrian Railways locomotive, circa 1921. ...
Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 335 pixelsFull resolution (1068 × 447 pixel, file size: 167 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Cambrian Railways locomotive, circa 1921. ...
The Great Western Railway had an uninterrupted life of over a century to develop its locomotive designs as it was barely affected by the Grouping of 1923. ...
Accidents A head-on collision occurred at Abermule on 26 January 1921, killing 15 passengers, including Lord Herbert Vane-Tempest, a director of the company and son of the fifth Marquess of Londonderry. The accident was caused by a confusion amongst the staff at Abermule whereby the driver of the train in the station was given back the token he had just handed over, for the section of track he had just travelled over - it would not have been possible to give him the token for the next section. The driver did not check which token he had and set off. He soon collided with the Aberystwyth to Manchester express coming the other way, which had the token for that section. A head on collision occurred at Abermule, Montgomeryshire, Wales on the 26th January 1921, killing 17 passengers. ...
Abermule is a village in Powys, mid Wales. ...
is the 26th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ...
The title of Marquess of Londonderry (pronounced Lundundry) is a title in the Peerage of Ireland created in 1816 for Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of Londonderry, father of Lord Castlereagh, the Foreign Secretary at the time. ...
Other information
 Oswestry station and the company head office, circa 1921 The headquarters of the Cambrian Railways was at Oswestry. The building still stands (2004), although detached from the railway lines and in use for commercial purposes. The largest station premises on the line were at Aberystwyth. In 1911 there were 91 locomotives and one rail motor car in the Cambrian's rolling stock. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 417 pixelsFull resolution (1083 × 565 pixel, file size: 176 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Oswestry railway station and Cambrian Railways head office c. ...
Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 417 pixelsFull resolution (1083 × 565 pixel, file size: 176 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Oswestry railway station and Cambrian Railways head office c. ...
Oswestry is a town in Shropshire, England, very close to the Welsh border. ...
A registered museum dedicated to the history of the Cambrian Railways is run by the Cambrian Railways Society in Oswestry.
See also Shropshire has a fairly large railway network, with 19 national rail stations, as well as the famous heritage Severn Valley Railway running along its eastern border with Worcestershire. ...
The Cambrian Railways Trust (not to be confused with the nearby Cambrian Railway Society) is a heritage railway based at Llynclys near Oswestry, Shropshire. ...
The Cambrian Railway Society (not to be confused with the nearby Cambrian Railway Trust) is located in Oswestry, Shropshire, England, and plans to restore the branch line from Blodwel to Nantmawr as a heritage railway. ...
External links - Corris Railway
- The Story of the Cambrian, by C. P. Gasquoine, 1922, from Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg, abbreviated as PG, is a volunteer effort to digitize, archive and distribute cultural works. ...
| | | █ Great Western • █ London Midland & Scottish • █ London & North Eastern • █ Southern This article is about the defunct entity British Railways, which later traded as British Rail. The History of rail transport in Great Britain is covered in its own article. ...
The original Bristol Temple Meads station, first terminus of the GWR, is the building to the left of this picture The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company, linking South West England, the West Country and South Wales with London. ...
The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS1) was a British railway company. ...
LNER timetable for Autumn 1926 detailing the resumption of services after the General Strike. ...
A London and South Western Railway weight restriction sign on a bridge across the Tarka Trail (formerly the Barnstaple to Great Torrington railway) at Instow, North Devon. ...
| | GWR constituents: Great Western Railway • Cambrian Railways • Taff Vale Railway
Barry Railway • Rhymney Railway • (full list)
LNER constituents: Great Central • Great Eastern • Great Northern • Great North of Scotland
Hull & Barnsley • North British • North Eastern • (Full list)
LMS constituents: Caledonian • Furness • Glasgow & South Western • Highland
Lancashire & Yorkshire • London and North Western • Midland • North Staffordshire • (Full list)
SR constituents: London and South Western Railway • London, Brighton and South Coast Railway
South Eastern Railway • London, Chatham and Dover Railway • (Full list) The original Bristol Temple Meads station, first terminus of the GWR, is the building to the left of this picture The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company, linking South West England, the West Country and South Wales with London. ...
The Taff Vale Railway (TVR) is a railway in Glamorgan, South Wales, and is one of the oldest in Wales. ...
The Barry Railway (Barry) was incorporated by Act of Parliament on August 14 1884, for the construction of a dock at Barry Island, 7 miles from Cardiff, and the construction of railways about 26 miles in length from the docks to the Rhondda Valley, with access by junctions with the...
The Rhymney Railway (Rhymney) was virtually a single stretch of main line, some twenty-five miles in length, by which the Rhymney Valley was connected to the docks at Cardiff in the county of Glamorgan, South Wales. ...
The list of constituent companies of the Great Western Railway (GWR) as a result of the the Railways Act 1921: Constituent companies The new Great Western Railway comprised the following constituent companies: Great Western Railway route mileage 3005 miles (4808 km) Barry Railway (Barry) 68 miles (109 km) Cambrian Railways...
The Great Central Railway (GCR) was a railway company in England which came into being when the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway changed its name in 1897 on the completion of its London Extension. ...
The Great Eastern Railway (GER) was formed in 1862 as an amalgamation of the Eastern Counties Railway; and also with several other smaller railways: Norfolk, the Eastern Union, the Newmarket, the Harwich, the East Anglian Light and the East Suffolk; among others. ...
The Great Northern Railway (GNR) was a British railway company, founded by the London & York Railway Act of 1846. ...
The Great North of Scotland Railway (GNSR) received its Parliamentary approval on June 26, 1846, following over two years’ of local meetings. ...
The Hull and Barnsley Railway (H&BR) was opened on 20th July 1885. ...
The North British Railway was a Scottish railway company that was absorbed into the London and North Eastern Railway at the grouping in 1923. ...
The North Eastern Railway (NER), unlike many other of the pre-Grouping companies, had a relatively compact territory, having the district it covered to itself. ...
The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) was formed out of a number of constituent railway companies at the grouping in 1923. ...
The Caledonian Railway was a Scottish railway company which was grouped into the London Midland and Scottish Railway by the Railways Act 1921 in 1923. ...
Furness Railway was one of the constituent companies of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in the Railways Act 1921. ...
Glasgow and South Western Railway formed part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway. ...
The Highland Railway was a Scottish railway company which was grouped into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway. ...
The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR) was a major British railway company before the 1923 Grouping, although in 1922 it had already entered into a working agreement with the London and North Western Railway. ...
The London and North Western Railway (LNWR) was formed in 1846 by the merger of three railway companies - the Grand Junction Railway, London and Birmingham and Manchester and Birmingham. ...
This article is about the historical British railway company. ...
The North Staffordshire Railway was a British railway company which had its roots in an early scheme to build a small plateway from the base of the Cauldon canal up to Cauldon quarries. ...
// Constituent companies The following made up the London, Midland and Scottish Railway as a result of the Railways Act 1921: Caledonian Railway (CalR) 1114. ...
Waterloo Station The London and South Western Railway (L&SWR) was a railway company in England from 1840 to 1923. ...
The LB&SCRs coat of arms, displayed above the entrance to Gipsy Hill railway station. ...
The London and Greenwich Railway (LGR) and the Canterbury and Whitstable Railway (CWR) in East Kent were the earliest railways to serve the then county of Kent: eventually both became parts of the South Eastern Railway (SER). ...
Crest of the LCDR on the first Blackfriars Railway Bridge The London, Chatham and Dover Railway (LCDR) was a railway company that operated in south-eastern England between 1859 and 1923 before grouping with three other companies to form the Southern Railway. ...
The Southern Railway was one of the Big Four railway companies set up after the 1923 Grouping. ...
| | See also: History of rail transport in Great Britain 1923 - 1947 • List of companies involved in the grouping This article is part of a series on the History of rail transport in Great Britain The history of rail transport in Great Britain 1923 - 1947 covers the peroid when the British railway system was run by the Big Four group of companies - the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS...
Under the Railways Act 1921 the majority of the railway companies in Great Britain (and few in Northern Ireland) were grouped into four main companies, often termed the Big Four: the grouping took effect from 1 January 1923. ...
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