Llanidloes and Newtown Railway
The Llanidloes and Newtown Railway was a British railway company based in Powys , Wales .
history
The company was founded on August 4, 1859. The 22.5 kilometer long railway line along the Severn between Llanidloes and Newtown was opened on April 30, 1859 for freight and on September 2, 1859 for passenger traffic. The construction of the line was financed and carried out with local capital and local workers. The Welsh industrialist and later MP David Davies from Llandinam was involved in the venture . Only with the completion of the Oswestry and Newtown Railway on June 10, 1861 was the previously isolated line connected to the rest of the railway network. In Llanidloes there was a connection to the Mid-Wales Railway .
Due to disputes over the right of way between the Mid-Wales Railway and the Manchester and Milford Railway , the 2.4-kilometer section between Llanidloes station and Penpontbren Junction of the Llanidloes and Newtown Railway was added and the two competing companies were given corresponding rights of use.
On July 25, 1864, the company merged with three other railway companies to form Cambrian Railways .
literature
- Christopher Awdry: Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies . Stephens, Wellingborough 1990, ISBN 1-85260-049-7 .