An early railway accident
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Llanidloes An early railway accident |
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| A train crash at Tylwch in 1899 | ||
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There was a tragic railway accident
in 1899 at Tylwch, which is to the
south of Llanidloes and close to the border between Montgomeryshire and
Radnorshire. |
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The railway
station at Tylwch is shown on this section of a 1904 map. The road at the top of the map goes to Llanidloes, and the road at the bottom near Rock Cottage goes to Rhayader. The River Dulas is shown in blue. |
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The railway line has now been closed
for years. The old railway station
building is now a private house, and Tylwch is now a peaceful
little community situated in a very attractive valley, but over a hundred
years ago it was the scene of one of the early disasters which occasionally
happened with the huge growth in the railway
network during the Victorian age. More about the railway accident...
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