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The Llandeilo - Abergwili Junction Branch Line - 2

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Abergwili and Dryslwyn

Abergwili Junction was bulldozed into oblivion when a dual carriageway was built from near Whitemill on the A40 eastwards to join up with the A48 on the south side of the River Towy at Carmarthen between 1999 and 2001. The roadworks included a new road bridge over the river.

Dryslwyn Station is almost complete (although now a private residence} and the platform and line of track bed are easily visible on the east side of the road. The west side is overgrown and trees grow along the track bed. The level crossing gates remain as a memorial to glories past, the tracks crossing the road having long since disappeared.

 

Dryslwyn Station 2002

Dryslwyn Station, 2002

The old trackbed looking east. The platform is clearly visible

and the old station building on the right is now a private house.

Crossing Gate Dryslwyn

Level Crossing Gate, Dryslwyn Station, 2002

Looking east, the remains of the track are overgrown and trees now grow where the trains once travelled the pretty route between Llandeilo and Carmarthen

Just off the road by the station building is a a notice which says

Llanelly Railway & Dock Company

1863 -1964

LNER / GWR / LMS / BR

 

All station buildings along the line have been converted into private dwellings.

There were stone station buildings at

Abergwili 

SN 436312
Nantgaredig    

SN 494207
Llanarthne  

SN 5 3420
Dryslwyn  

SN 554198

Golden Grove

SN 590211

In 2002 Carmarthen has one station, on the south side of the River Towy, close to the town’s historic bridge. What is not generally realised is that in the heyday of steam the station was at Myrtle Hill, Pensarn, and the river crossing was via a bascule bridge. There were also engine workshops and sidings of a considerable size. Remnants of these can be identified in Jewson’s builders’ merchants yard.

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