Anyone been to Sugar Loaf station in Powys?

[the other bob wilson]

You’re in good company if you have :hehe:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-63742917

[Robin Friday's Ghost]

Re: Anyone been to Sugar Loaf station in Powys?

You’re in good company if you have :hehe:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-63742917

I was puzzled for a bit as the only Sugar Loaf I know in Wales is near Abergavenny and there's only one stop there. But it looks like there's another near Llandovety.

[the other bob wilson]

Re: Anyone been to Sugar Loaf station in Powys?

I was puzzled for a bit as the only Sugar Loaf I know in Wales is near Abergavenny and there's only one stop there. But it looks like there's another near Llandovety.

Yeah, I’d not heard of it, makes you wonder how some of those smaller stations survived Beeching - provided they were open then.

[Robin Friday's Ghost]

Re: Anyone been to Sugar Loaf station in Powys?

Yeah, I’d not heard of it, makes you wonder how some of those smaller stations survived Beeching - provided they were open then.

Don't know if we have any request stops in Wales? I've never come across one.

[the other bob wilson]

Re: Anyone been to Sugar Loaf station in Powys?

Don't know if we have any request stops in Wales? I've never come across one.

Same here.

[Paul0453]

Re: Anyone been to Sugar Loaf station in Powys?

Don't know if we have any request stops in Wales? I've never come across one.

There are request stops on the Heart of Wales line & on the West Wales line.

[the other bob wilson]

Re: Anyone been to Sugar Loaf station in Powys?

There are request stops on the Heart of Wales line & on the West Wales line.

Sugar Loaf station is a request stop only twenty nine miles from Treherbert - looks like it was closed under the Beeching review but then reopened in the eighties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_Loaf_railway_station

[Fatty Thornton]

Re: Anyone been to Sugar Loaf station in Powys?

Same here.

I think Gilfach Fargoed on Rhymney Valley line is?

[Ivortheengine]

Re: Anyone been to Sugar Loaf station in Powys?

I came back from Builth Wells via Craven Arms on one occasion. I had to do a “ Portillo” and hold out my arm to stop the approaching train. I was the only person on the platform. A weird sensation