History
Built by the Shrewsbury and Welshpool Railway, it opened on 27 January 1862. Operated by the London and North Western Railway, the line was eventually absorbed by the Cambrian Railways. After grouping in 1923, it became part of the Great Western Railway.
Midland Counties Dairy bought and operated the creamery at Kirkewydd. A siding from the station gave access for milk trains to the creamery.
About 100 metres north of the station were exchange sidings with the narrow gauge Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway which opened for freight traffic in 1903 and closed in 1956 with a separate station serving passenger traffic until 1931. The last remains of this station and the site of the railway were obliterated by the construction of the new A483 road.
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