List of Early British Railway Companies - English and Welsh Early Railways - Wales

Wales

  • Cambrian Railways incorporated between 1864 and 1904
    • Oswestry and Newtown Railway 30 miles: incorporated 6 June 1855; opened 1860-1
    • Llanidloes and Newtown Railway 12.25 miles: 4 August 1853; 1859. Until 1861 this section of the line was completely isolated
    • Newtown and Machynlleth Railway 23 miles: 27 July 1857; 1863
    • Oswestry, Ellesmere and Whitchurch Railway 18 miles: 1 August 1861; 1863-4
    • Aberystwyth and Welsh Coast Railway 86 miles: July 26, 1861; 1863–69
    • Mid Wales Railway 45.5 miles: 1 August 1859; 1 September 1864. This Railway maintained complete independence from the Cambrian until 1 January 1888, when the latter took over working the line; and on 1 July 1904 when the two Railways amalgamated.
    • and several railways opened in the 1860s
  • Festiniog Railway incorporated 23 May 1832 (1 ft 11 1⁄2 in (597 mm) gauge) 13½ miles opened 1836 to carry dressed slate from Blaenau Ffestiniog to Porthmadog for export by sea, carried passengers from 1865. Still independent and since 1954 a leading heritage railway.
  • Llanelly Railway and Dock Company incorporated 1828
  • Rhymney Railway incorporated 1854
  • Taff Vale Railway (TVR) incorporated 1836. Among the eight railways amalgamated with the TVR is one early railway:
    • Aberdare Railway opened 1846

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