page_title: Llanidloes and Newtown Railway
section_title: Llanidloes and Newtown Railway proposed
hierarchical_section_title: Llanidloes and Newtown Railway / Llanidloes and Newtown Railway proposed
caption_attribution_description: English: Llanidloes station, with southbound Mid-Wales line train. View northward, towards Moat Lane Junction: ex-Cambrian Railway Mount Lane - Builth - Three Cocks line. Back in 1949, ex-Cambrian or ex-GW 0-6-0's worked most of the traffic on this line, which was closed on 31/12/62 although goods traffic continued as far as Llanidloes until 4/5/64. No. 2483 is a GW 'Dean Goods' 0-6-0 (built 5/1896, withdrawn 9/52).
context_page_description: The Llanidloes and Newtown Railway was a railway company in Montgomeryshire, Wales. It was promoted locally when plans for trunk railways passing through the locality were cancelled; local people saw that a railway connection was essential to the flannel industry in the district. The seventeen-mile line opened in 1859, and at first was isolated from any other railway, but from 1861 it became connected to Oswestry by an allied railway company, and other companies also connected to it. From 1864 the company was incorporated into the new Cambrian Railways company.
  Serving a thinly populated and remote area, the line was never commercially successful, and the long-distance through routes passing through did not succeed in bringing great traffic volumes to the line. When Llanidloes station was to be extended and improved, the Manchester and Milford Railway, then under construction, undertook to pay a one-third share of the cost of the works, and of future maintenance and operation of the station. The M&MR later decided to alter the course of its line and never reached Llanidloes, but continued to be liable for heavy charges for a station it did not connect with.
context_section_description: There was considerable disappointment in Llanidloes, that the town was now to be passed by, and much interest was shown in building their own line to Newtown, where a connection would be made with the Montgomeryshire line when it was built. A meeting was held at Llanidloes on 30 October 1852 under the chairmanship of George Hammond Whalley, MP. A prospectus was approved: capital of £60,000 would be needed to build the line, and annual receipts were estimated at £8,250, offering a dividend of 7 per cent. The route was surveyed by Rice Hopkins. The Bill went forward to the 1853 Parliamentary session. Serious errors in Hopkins’ levels were exposed, but the scheme was quickly rectified and the Act was passed on 4 August 1853.
caption: A southbound train at Llanidloes station
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