Standard gauge railway, opened in 1871, to serve the Van Lead Mines (nprn 34017) running some 10.6km between the mines and Caersws Station (nprn 43015) on the Cambrian main line. A passenger service operated between 1873 and 1879. The branch closed in 1940.
Sources include: D.E.Bick, The Old Metal Mines of Mid-Wales, 1977, pages 40-45; Colonel M.H.Cobb, The Railways of Great Britain: A Historical Atlas, Ian Allan, second edition 2006; RCAHMW aerial photograph AP955037/59)
J.Wiles, RCAHMW, 13.01.2004 & B.A.Malaws, RCAHMW, 05 August 2015.