Cambrian Railways
From Graces Guide
September 1913. Barmouth Viaduct
of Oswestry, Salop.
The company was formed by an amalgamation of several other companies:
1864 Company incorporated. Amalgamation of 4 lines between Whitchurch and Machynlleth:
- Oswestry, Ellesmere and Whitchurch Railway
- Oswestry and Newtown Railway
- Llanidloes and Newtown Railway
- Newtown and Machynlleth Railway [1]
1865 Aberystwyth and Welsh Coast Railway absorbed.
1870 Salon carriage built at Oswestry for Earl Vane, the chairman of the Cambrian Railways Co. [2]
1888 See Locomotive Stock June 1888
1904 Mid-Wales Railway absorbed.
1908 The line owned is 229 miles in length. [3]
1913 Vale of Rheidol Railway absorbed.
1921 Tanat Valley Light Railway absorbed.
1923 Became part of the Great Western Railway [4]
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