Gwili Railway, 9th June 2018


David Bosher

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<h4><a href='/locations/B/Bronwydd_Arms'>Bronwydd Arms</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Carmarthen_and_Cardigan_Railway'>Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway</a></small></p><p>First view of the Gwili Railway from coach from Ferryside station on the GWR main line to Bronwydd Arms, courtesy of UK Railtours, on 9th June 2018, looking north. The location is about 3/4 of a mile south of Bronwydd Arms. This is the track of the heritage railway's southern extension to Abergwili Junction, opened just under a year earlier, on 1st July 2017. The afon/river Gwili can be made out amongst the trees and bushes on the right. 1/10</p><p>09/06/2018<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Bronwydd_Arms'>Bronwydd Arms</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Carmarthen_and_Cardigan_Railway'>Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway</a></small></p><p>Bronwydd Arms station, HQ of the heritage Gwili Railway in south-west Wales, looking north, seen from arriving coach from Ferryside on level crossing on 9th June 2018. 2/10</p><p>09/06/2018<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/L/Llwyfan_Cerrig'>Llwyfan Cerrig</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Carmarthen_and_Cardigan_Railway'>Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway</a></small></p><p>Gwili Railway train to Danycoed, crossing the bridge over the river Gwili, just south of Llwyfan Cerrig station, on 9th June 2018. 3/10</p><p>09/06/2018<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/L/Llwyfan_Cerrig'>Llwyfan Cerrig</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Carmarthen_and_Cardigan_Railway'>Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway</a></small></p><p>Gwili Railway train heading north to Danycoed at Llwyfan Cerrig, looking back south, on 9th June 2018. The station building here came from the former Felin Fach station on the Lampeter to Aberaeron branch, which was an offshoot of the line that the Gwili Railway now partially utilises. That line opened on 12th May 1851 and was closed to passengers one week short of its 100th anniversary on 7th May 1951 with freight finishing in 1963. 4/10</p><p>08/06/2018<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/D/Danycoed_Halt'>Danycoed Halt</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway'>Great Western Railway</a></small></p><p>Gwili Railway train heading north to Danycoed in south-west Wales, on 9th June 2018. 5/10</p><p>09/06/2018<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/D/Danycoed_Halt'>Danycoed Halt</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Carmarthen_and_Cardigan_Railway'>Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway</a></small></p><p>Gwili Railway train just arrived at the current northern terminus of the line at Danycoed, on 9th June 2018. The Gwili Railway has plans to extend north of Danycoed to Llanpumpsaint but, of course, that has been put on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic. 6/10</p><p>09/06/2018<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/D/Danycoed_Halt'>Danycoed Halt</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Carmarthen_and_Cardigan_Railway'>Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway</a></small></p><p>RSH no.7170 standard austerity 'Welsh Guardsman' dating from 1944 and now at the Severn Valley Railway, running round at Danycoed, current northern terminus of the Gwili Railway, on 9th June 2018. I am indebted to my friend and fellow Railscot contributor Bill Roberton for details of the locomotive. The railway owns a further three miles of trackbed and hope to extend to Llampumpsaint at a future date. 7/10</p><p>09/06/2018<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/D/Danycoed_Halt'>Danycoed Halt</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Carmarthen_and_Cardigan_Railway'>Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway</a></small></p><p>Commemorative stone at Danycoed, on the Gwili Railway, on 9th June 2018. 8/10</p><p>09/06/2018<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Bronwydd_Arms'>Bronwydd Arms</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Carmarthen_and_Cardigan_Railway'>Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway</a></small></p><p>The Gwili Railway runs over a section at the southern end of the former Carmarthen to Aberystwyth line that closed in 1964. Here is Class 117 51347 waiting to depart over the line's southern extension, sadly not all the way to Carmarthen as the destination blind would have us believe, but just to the outskirts of the town at the new southern terminus at Abergwili Junction, that opened on 1st July 2017. This d.m.u. was withdrawn from BR service in 1993 and in 1994 found its way to the Mangapps Railway Museum in Essex before going to the Colne Valley Railway at Castle Hedingham in 1995. It then moved on to the Nene Valley Railway in 1997 before finally moving to the Gwili Railway in 2009 where hopefully it has now found a permanent home. Seen here on 9th June 2018. 9/10</p><p>09/06/2018<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Bronwydd_Arms'>Bronwydd Arms</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Carmarthen_and_Cardigan_Railway'>Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway</a></small></p><p>Class 117 DMU 51347 departing from Bronwydd Arms with a Gwili Railway service to Abergwili Junction on 9th June 2018. This will travel over the line's southern extension that opened on 1st July 2017. 10/10</p><p>09/06/2018<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>
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Bronwydd Arms

Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway

First view of the Gwili Railway from coach from Ferryside station on the GWR main line to Bronwydd Arms, courtesy of UK Railtours, on 9th June 2018, looking north. The location is about 3/4 of a mile south of Bronwydd Arms. This is the track of the heritage railway's southern extension to Abergwili Junction, opened just under a year earlier, on 1st July 2017. The afon/river Gwili can be made out amongst the trees and bushes on the right. 1/10

09/06/2018
David Bosher