page_title: Llangurig branch
section_title: Llanidloes and Newtown Railway
hierarchical_section_title: Llangurig branch / Llanidloes and Newtown Railway
caption_attribution_description: English: Former railway station, Llanidloes
context_page_description: The Llangurig branch was a part of a proposed scheme by the Manchester and Milford Railway to connect industrialised Northwest England with the West Wales deep water port of Milford Haven. After various financial and construction difficulties, the 1.5 miles of the Llangurig branch is noted as being the shortest lived working branch line in the United Kingdom, receiving only one train.
context_section_description: The MWR and M&MR both knew that their approaches to Llanidloes covered exactly the same ground. This caused the M&MR to prioritise work on this section, working east from Llangurig. Resultantly, by 1861 the surveyors and navvies of the two competing workforces were physically clashing.
  With the help of a local third party, an 1862 Act of Parliament authorised the creation of the joint-owned Llanidloes and Newtown Railway, which would extend southwards of Llanidloes with 1.5 miles (2.4 km) of double track to Penpontbren Junction, where the MWR and M&MR would diverge. The M&MR and MWR were to pay 5% "per annum" on construction costs and maintenance. Also the three companies were to pay equal shares of interest and running costs for the new Llanidloes railway station. These charges were eventually to prove crippling for the M&MR.
caption: The restored Georgian-style façade of Llanidloes railway station in 1990.
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