Mixed Fortunes
By 1844 the company ceased trading and it was to take over 30 years for the line to reopen. At a meeting in Llanelli Town Hall chaired by C.N.Neville Esq. M.P., it was resolved to reopen the line and to extend it to Cross Hands. In 1880 Mr Waddell the contractor stated that he was "pushing ahead with vigour".
The railway reopened in 1883 operated by the newly formed Llanelly and Mynydd Mawr Railway Company (LMMR). The company used the anglicised spelling "Llanelly" rather than the Welsh Llanelli. Mynydd Mawr means "Great Mountain" in English. The track was re-laid using edge rails to standard gauge.
The LMMR company disappeared in 1922 on being absorbed into the Great Western Railway which was in turn absorbed into British Railways in 1947. Throughout the twentieth century the line continued as a main artery for coal distribution from the Gwendraeth valley, until the closure of Cynheidre Colliery in 1989.
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