Operations
Completed in 1859, the railway ran from Penpontbren Junction in the south, via the company headquarters at Llanidloes. There were then two intermediate stations before Moat Lane Junction, where the Newtown and Machynlleth Railway extension of the Aberystwyth and Welsh Coast Railway joined the line. Passing two further halts, the line entered Newtown, the joint station with the Oswestry and Newtown Railway which took the line northwards to towards Shrewsbury, Crewe and Manchester. The railway had no rolling stock of its own, simply allowing its partners to access it rails.
In 1860 the L&NR was absorbed as part of the Cambrian Railways, along with all of its connecting railways. It then became part of the GWR on grouping in 1923.
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Famous quotes containing the word operations:
“It may seem strange that any road through such a wilderness should be passable, even in winter, when the snow is three or four feet deep, but at that season, wherever lumbering operations are actively carried on, teams are continually passing on the single track, and it becomes as smooth almost as a railway.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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