Heart of Wales Line from UK Railtours First Class Dining Excursion, 2.9.17


David Bosher

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<h4><a href='/locations/L/Llandeilo'>Llandeilo</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/Llanelly_Railway_and_Dock_Company'>Llanelly Railway and Dock Company</a></small></p><p>UK Railtours excursion from London Paddington to Llandrindod Wells arriving at the semi-derelict Llandeilo station on the Heart of Wales Line (as the Central Wales line is now known) on 2nd September 2017. There was a wait here of several minutes for a Llanelli train to pass and clear the single line ahead. Somebody needs to go round with a bottle of Weedol, in fact probably several bottles. 1/22</p><p>02/09/2017<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/L/Llandeilo'>Llandeilo</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/Llanelly_Railway_and_Dock_Company'>Llanelly Railway and Dock Company</a></small></p><p>150 257 from Shrewsbury to Llanelli standing at at Llandeilo station on the Heart of Wales Line, with UK Railtours' excursion from London Paddington to Llandrindod Wells on the left, on 2nd September 2017. 2/22</p><p>02/09/2017<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/L/Llandovery'>Llandovery</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/V/Vale_of_Towy_Railway'>Vale of Towy Railway</a></small></p><p>UK Railtours' excursion from London Paddington to Llandrindod Wells passing Llandovery station on the Heart of Wales Line, on 2nd September 2017.<br>See <a target=query href=/queries/closed.html>query 2046</a> 3/22</p><p>02/09/2017<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/L/Llandovery'>Llandovery</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/V/Vale_of_Towy_Railway'>Vale of Towy Railway</a></small></p><p>UK Railtours' excursion from London Paddington to Llandrindod Wells, behind 68 016, passing Llandovery station on the Heart of Wales Line, on 2nd September 2017. 4/22</p><p>02/09/2017<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/L/Llandovery'>Llandovery</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/V/Vale_of_Towy_Railway'>Vale of Towy Railway</a></small></p><p>Llandovery station, seen from UK Railtours' excursion from London Paddington to Llandrindod Wells, passing on 2nd September 2017. 5/22</p><p>02/09/2017<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Cynghordy_Viaduct'>Cynghordy Viaduct</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Central_Wales_Extension_Railway'>Central Wales Extension Railway</a></small></p><p>UK Railtours excursion from London Paddington to Llandrindod Wells, behind 68016, heading north across the majestic Cynghordy Viaduct on the Heart of Wales Line, on 2nd September 2017. 6/22</p><p>02/09/2017<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/L/Llanwrtyd_Wells'>Llanwrtyd Wells</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Central_Wales_Extension_Railway'>Central Wales Extension Railway</a></small></p><p>UK Railtours excursion from London Paddington to Llandrindod Wells, behind 68016, passing Llanwrtyd Wells station on the Heart of Wales Line, on 2nd September 2017. 7/22</p><p>02/09/2017<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/L/Llanwrtyd_Wells'>Llanwrtyd Wells</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Central_Wales_Extension_Railway'>Central Wales Extension Railway</a></small></p><p>Llanwrtyd Wells station, seen from a UK Railtours excursion from London Paddington to Llandrindod Wells, behind 68016, passing on 2nd September 2017. 8/22</p><p>02/09/2017<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Builth_Road'>Builth Road</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Central_Wales_Extension_Railway'>Central Wales Extension Railway</a></small></p><p>UK Railtours' excursion from London Paddington to Llandrindod Wells passing the surviving high level station at Builth Road, looking back south as the train heads north, on 2nd September 2017. 9/22</p><p>02/09/2017<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/L/Llandrindod_Wells'>Llandrindod Wells</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Central_Wales_Railway'>Central Wales Railway</a></small></p><p>UK Railtours' excursion from London Paddington arriving at its destination at Llandrindod Wells station, where a two hours leg stretch took place, on 2nd September 2017. The train was moved out of the station onto a siding to allow for the passage of a Swansea to Shrewsbury train that crossed another travelling in the opposite direction. 10/22</p><p>02/09/2017<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/L/Llandrindod'>Llandrindod</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Central_Wales_Railway'>Central Wales Railway</a></small></p><p>View from Llandrindod Wells station footbridge, looking north, with UK Railtours' excursion from London Paddington just arrived on 2nd September 2017. 11/22</p><p>02/09/2017<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/L/Llandrindod_Wells'>Llandrindod Wells</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Central_Wales_Railway'>Central Wales Railway</a></small></p><p>Llandrindod Wells signal box on 2nd September 2017. This used to stand slightly north of the station but after its de-commissioning, it was moved to the southbound platform of Llandrindod Wells station and, though no longer operational, now acts as a small museum to the history of the station on the Heart of Wales Line. (Note the modern station sign saying only Llandrindod, the station name having changed in 1980.) 12/22</p><p>02/09/2017<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/L/Llandrindod_Wells'>Llandrindod Wells</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Central_Wales_Railway'>Central Wales Railway</a></small></p><p>Llandrindod Wells station, looking north towards Shrewsbury, on 2nd September 2017. The northern junction for the Heart of Wales Line is actually at Craven Arms where it meets the Welsh Marches Line. 13/22</p><p>02/09/2017<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/L/Llandrindod_Wells'>Llandrindod Wells</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Central_Wales_Railway'>Central Wales Railway</a></small></p><p>153353 single diesel unit, with a Heart of Wales Line service from Shrewsbury to Swansea (reversing at Llanelli), arriving at Llandrindod Wells station on 2nd September 2017. 14/22</p><p>02/07/2017<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/L/Llandrindod_Wells'>Llandrindod Wells</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Central_Wales_Railway'>Central Wales Railway</a></small></p><p>153 353 with a Heart of Wales Line service from Shrewsbury to Swansea (reversing at Llanelli) about to depart from Llandrindod Wells station, on 2nd September 2017. 15/22</p><p>02/09/2017<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/L/Llandrindod_Wells'>Llandrindod Wells</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Central_Wales_Railway'>Central Wales Railway</a></small></p><p>153323 single diesel unit, with a Heart of Wales Line service to Shrewsbury, calling at Llandrindod Wells station on 2nd September 2017. 16/22</p><p>02/09/2017<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/L/Llandrindod_Wells'>Llandrindod Wells</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Central_Wales_Railway'>Central Wales Railway</a></small></p><p>153323 to Shrewsbury, and 153353 to Swansea, crossing in the loop at Llandrindod Wells station, on the single-track Heart of Wales Line, on 2nd September 2017. 17/22</p><p>02/09/2017<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/L/Llandrindod_Wells'>Llandrindod Wells</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Central_Wales_Railway'>Central Wales Railway</a></small></p><p>Exterior of Llandrindod Wells station, Heart of Wales Line, on 2nd September 2017. This station opened in 1865 with the extension of the line from Knighton and was the temporary terminus until the line was further extended to Llandovery in 1868. The current timetable sees only four trains a day in each direction between Shrewsbury, and Swansea with trains to the latter reversing at Llanelli, as they have had to do since the closure (under the hapless Beeching cuts) of the direct line from Pontardulais to Swansea Victoria in 1964. 18/22</p><p>02/09/2017<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/L/Llandrindod_Wells'>Llandrindod Wells</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Central_Wales_Railway'>Central Wales Railway</a></small></p><p>68024 bringing UK Railtours' excursion back into Llandrindod Wells station, for the journey home to London Paddington, on 2nd September 2017. The return was via Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, Walsall, the Sutton Park freight only line, Coventry, Leamington Spa, Oxford, Didcot Parkway and Reading. 19/22</p><p>02/09/2017<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/K/Knucklas_Viaduct'>Knucklas Viaduct</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Central_Wales_Railway'>Central Wales Railway</a></small></p><p>UK Railtours' return excursion from Llandrindod Wells to London Paddington crossing Knucklas Viaduct, dating from 1865 on the Heart of Wales Line, on 2nd September 2017. 20/22</p><p>02/09/2017<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/K/Knighton'>Knighton</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/K/Knighton_Railway'>Knighton Railway</a></small></p><p>Knighton station, looking north on the Heart of Wales Line, seen from UK Railtours' return excursion from Llandrindod Wells to London Paddington, on 2nd September 2017. Curiously, this station is just across the Welsh border in England even though Knighton itself is in Wales. An even more curious example, now lost forever, was at the former Hay-on-Wye station on the Brecon to Hereford line that closed at the end of 1962 and where the border ran through the centre of the station, thus one platform was in Wales but cross the footbridge and you were in England! 21/22</p><p>02/09/2017<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/K/Knighton'>Knighton</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/K/Knighton_Railway'>Knighton Railway</a></small></p><p>Knighton station, Heart of Wales Line (here in England!) looking south from UK Railtours' return excursion from Llandrindod Wells to London Paddington, passing on 2nd September 2017. 22/22</p><p>02/09/2017<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>
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