page_title: Machynlleth railway station
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Machynlleth railway station / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Machynlleth Station with eastbound local train. View westward, down the Dovey Valley towards Dovey Junction, then Aberystwyth/Barmouth and Pwllheli. The locomotive is one of the first Churchward '4500' 2-6-2T, No. 4501 (built 11/06 as No. 2162).
context_page_description: Machynlleth railway station is a railway station on the Cambrian Line in mid-Wales, serving the historic town of Machynlleth. It was built by the Newtown and Machynlleth Railway, and subsequently passed into the ownership of the Cambrian Railways, the Great Western Railway, British Railways and British Railways. It is notable that there is a distance of 22 miles between this station and Caersws, the longest distance between two intermediate stations in Wales.
context_section_description: The first railway station in Machynlleth was the narrow gauge Corris Railway, which opened its station building on the north side of the main-line goods yard in 1859. This was later made accessible from the mainline station by a flight of steps from the standard gauge platform.
  The lower yard of the station contained a number of sidings that served transshipment wharves connected to the Corris Railway. A number of the quarries around Corris and Aberllefenni leased wharves here, notably Abercwmeiddaw from 1877 onwards.
  The existing mainline station dates from 1863 with the opening of the Newtown and Machynlleth Railway. The following year the Aberystwith and Welsh Coast Railway opened the line as far as Aberystwyth via Dovey Junction, and in 1867 the line was extended from Barmouth to Pwllheli via Porthmadog (then Portmadoc). In 1868 the station and lines were absorbed into the Cambrian Railways. The Cambrian Railways were absorbed by the Great Western Railway on 1 January 1922 as a result of the Railways Act 1921, and became part of British Railways in 1948.
  In 2016 a new footbridge with a lift at both ends to improve disabled access between the platforms was completed. The previous bridge was donated to the Cambrian Heritage Railways.
caption: Eastbound local train in 1951
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