Cambrian Railways
The Cambrian Railways (CambR) was a British railway company that operated a rail network in Wiltshire , England and Wales . The company was based in Oswestry .
The company was created on July 25, 1864 through the merger of the Oswestry, Ellesmore and Whitchurch Railway , the Oswestry and Newtown Railway , the Llanidloes and Newtown Railway and the Newtown and Machynlleth Railway . On July 5, 1865, the company took over the Aberystwith and Welsh Coast Railway . In 1904 the Mid-Wales Railway , the Vale of Rheidol Railway in 1913 and the Tanat Valley Light Railway in 1921 were taken over.
After the society got into financial difficulties in the 1870s, the beginning tourism enabled an improvement of the economic situation in the following decade. Locations that were not on the railway line were approached by omnibus from 1906 .
As part of the Railways Act 1921 , the Cambrian Railways of the Great Western Railway was slammed.
In 1921 the company's route network extended from Wrexham and Whitchurch in the north, via Oswestry, Welshpool , Montgomery to Newtown . A branch leads from there east to the Irish Sea . The former Aberystwith and Welsh Coast Railway runs along the coast from Aberystwyth to Pwllheli . The second branch leads south via Llanidloes and Builth Wells to Brecon .
literature
- Christopher Awdry: Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies . Stephens, Wellingborough 1990, ISBN 1-85260-049-7 .
