Welshpool Welsh:Y Trallwng
General information
Location	Welshpool,Powys Wales
Coordinates	52°39′27″N3°08′24″W / 52.657469°N 3.139947°W /52.657469; -3.139947
Grid reference	SJ229072
Managed by	Transport for Wales
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	WLP
Classification	DfT category F1
Key dates
14 August 1860	opened
18 May 1992[1]	Original station closed and new station opened on track realignment.
Passengers
2019/20	165,724
2020/21	33,782
2021/22	98,128
2022/23	140,554
2023/24	155,906
Notes Passenger statistics from theOffice of Rail and Road

Welshpool railway station is a railway station on theCambrian Line inPowys, mid-Wales. It was first opened in August 1860, but the current station was opened in May 1992 to allow for track re-alignment, the same day that the original closed, and is a short distance from the original. The station serves the town ofWelshpool (Welsh:Y Trallwng), as well as its surroundings.

Built by theOswestry & Newtown Railway, the original station opened on 14 August 1860.^[1] The line was initially operated by theLondon & North Western Railway before being absorbed by theCambrian Railways, which became part of theGreat Western Railway at thegrouping which came into effect on 1 January 1923.

Midland Counties Dairy bought and operated thecreamery at Cilcewydd. A siding from the station gave access formilk trains to the creamery.

About 100 metres north of the station were exchange sidings with the narrow gaugeWelshpool & Llanfair Light Railway which opened for freight traffic in 1903 and closed in 1956 with a separate station serving passenger traffic until 1931. By 2017 the only remains are part of the cattle dock which has mixed gauge track embedded into concrete track bed. All other remains of this station and the site of the railway were obliterated by the construction of the new A483 road.

There was some severe rationalisation of services under theBeeching cuts in the 1960s, with the old Cambrian main line toWhitchurch viaOswestry closed to passengers in January 1965 and most local stations towardsAberystwyth following suit later that year. Two of the four platforms at the old station were later taken out of use.^[1] Subsequent development of theA483 road Welshpool bypass (opened in July 1993)^[2] required the railway line to be shifted to the south. To enable this the original station was closed, and a new singleisland platform constructed byBritish Rail south of it, to allow realignment in May 1992.

The replacement station platform is reached by a pedestrian bridge crossing both the railway and the A483, with long uncovered inclines to the north and stepped access from the south. There are no facilities beyond a ticket vending machine, small shelter, bench seating, passenger information displays and a customer help point (though theNational Rail Enquiries station page does have directions to a local travel agent with National Rail ticketing facilities).^[3] The original station building can still be seen across the road, and has been converted into a shop and café.

The passing loop was later extended to 2.5 miles (4.0 km) to allow for an hourly train service, and to reduce the impact of delays on the line.

Trains run from here westwards toMachynlleth and then eitherAberystwyth orPwllheli viaBarmouth (most trains convey a portion for both routes) and eastwards toShrewsbury &Birmingham International. There is a basic two-hourly service each way - on weekdays & Saturdays with additional hourly Shrewsbury to Aberystwyth services until mid morning & again during late afternoon and early evenings. On Sundays there is a two-hourly service on the Shrewsbury - Aberystwyth axis, but only a limited service along the coast to/from Pwllheli (three in summer and one in winter).^[4]

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Newtown		Transport for Wales Cambrian Line		Shrewsbury
	Historical railways
Forden Line open, station closed		Cambrian Railways Oswestry & Newtown Railway		Buttington Line open, station closed
Terminus		GWR andLNWR joint Shrewsbury and Welshpool Railway
	Heritage railways
Walking connection withWelshpool Raven Square on theWelshpool & Llanfair Light Railway

• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2008).Shrewsbury to Newtown. Middleton Press. pp. 64–77.ISBN 9781906008291.OCLC 228374968.

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