Newtown / Y Drenewydd is a stop on the Cambrian Line in Powys between Caersws and Welshpool.
Transport for Wales 158 839 at Newtown
Information
Type:
National Rail
(Cambrian Line)
Station code:
NWT
Opened:
1863
Platforms:
2
The station was opened by the Newtown and Machynlleth Railway in 1863, it became part of the Cambrian Railway two years later. This was not Newtown's first station however, that was opened in 1859 by the Llanidloes & Newtown Railway, a bay was served by this railway which closed in the early 1960s. The station was rebuilt in 1869 and the current station building dates from this rebuild [1]. The station had two goods yards which are now closed.
The station is managed and served by Transport for Wales with services between Birmingham International and Aberystwyth or Pwllheli. Access between the platforms is via a footbridge.
Main station building
Road bridge and footbridge behind
Footbridge
View down the platform
A TfW 158 heads off
[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Shrewsbury to Newtown (Middleton Press, 2008) Fig. 113
