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The headquarters of the railway are at Aberystwyth where it shares a terminus with the standard gauge main line, trains leaving from the former Carmarthen bay platform.
There are nine stations. Whilst all trains generally stop at block stations, for operational reasons, the other (smaller) stations are request stops. The journey takes one hour in each direction and much of it at a gradient of 1 in 50 (2%).
- Aberystwyth
- Llanbadarn (request stop)
- Glanyrafon (request stop)
- Capel Bangor
- Nantyronen(request stop)
- Aberffrwd
- Rheidol Falls (request stop)
- Rhiwfron (request stop)
- Devil's Bridge
When the lead mines were being worked there was an aerial cableway linking them with Rhiwfron.
The railway had a branch line which ran to Aberystwyth harbour, principally for freight services. The Harbour Branch became redundant with the predominance of tourist passenger operations and was closed and lifted. Little evidence of it remains today.
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