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Cardigan Railway Station, Whitland and Cardigan Railway

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NPRN41370
Map ReferenceSN14NE
Grid ReferenceSN1805045818
Unitary (Local) AuthorityCeredigion
Old CountyCardiganshire
CommunityCardigan
Type Of SiteRAILWAY STATION
PeriodPost Medieval
Description
Cardigan Railway Station was the terminus of the Whitland and Cardigan Railway (nprn 410169) and it opened in 1886. The station had a single passenger platform on the down side and a run-round loop. There was a goods yard, with two sidings and a stone-built goods shed, on the up side and a siding served a small locomotive shed and turntable adjacent to the River Teifi. A further siding on the down side completed the track layout.
The main station building had stuccoed walls of local brick under a low-pitch hipped slated roof with brick chimneys. There were square-headed openings with chamfered stucco surrounds. The canopy projected straight out from the building on moulded cast-iron brackets with a fretted fascia. The goods shed was set on a platform and had walls of slate blocks with dressed quoins and shallow arched heads to the openings. (Source: RCAHMW Cardiganshire Industrial file, SN14NE; notes by A.J. Parkinson)
The station closed in 1962 and the site is now part of an industrial estate; it would seem that only the goods shed survives.
B.A.Malaws, RCAHMW, 26 January 2010.