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Welcome to Cwmystwyth
Planning showed Cwmystwyth needed to be able to pass passenger trains so given the board
size the only practical option is an island platform as used by Chelwood and Criel-sur-Mer.
The prototype for this is Haven Street station on the Isle of White
Express Passenger Local Passenger Auto train
Through Goods Local Goods
Passing
Station Building & The Shop Platform
Goods Yard
Goods Shed Loading Dock Cattle Pen
Local industries
Sawmill A. E. Refrigeration Farmers Cooperative
Coal merchants Emo Oil Kingside Ballast
Panoramas Track Plan
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Express Passenger
The passenger train is an express as it includes the though coach to London.
Up to the 1960s there was wide range of through coaches to Aberystwyth.
This still exists except it's now a road coach and the service is orientated towards the students at the University in Aberystwyth.
Local Passenger
If the Mountain Section of the Manchester and Milford Railway had been built it would have run though an area with low and declining population.
Local passengers would be few so passenger trains emphasise none passenger traffic like milk.
Auto train (sometimes called push-pull trains)
The photos are of the afternoon train from Aberystwyth largely used by students returning from Aberystwyth and it turns round at Cwmystwyth
Through Goods
The Manchester and Milford Railway was planned as a route for goods going to and from America
Local Goods
The local goods shunts Cwmystwyth but only the sidings it can back into.
So Cwmystwyth is largely shunted by the local goods when its on it's way to Aberystwyth.
Out bound wagons have to be collected from the sidings.
In bound wagons have to be parked at the appropriate off loading point.
Wagons that are staying put have to be temporarily moved so other wagons can be reached.
This is a particular challenge at Cwmystwyth because of the track plan.
Also the 'businesses' want wagons moved when it's convenient to them, often at meal times, not the railway.
Trains passing at Cwmystwyth
Station Building & The Shop
Cwmystwyth's station building has a waiting room, booking office, and station master's office.
The station master also supervises Ysbyty Ystwyth, Pontrhydygroes, and Llangurig.
Platform
Goods Yard
As with most model railways the goods yard has to be shoe horned in. None the less it has a goods shed, cattle pen, and side loading dock.
Goods Shed
Loading Dock
Cattle Pen
Pendre Sawmill
A. E. Refrigeration's stores department
Clynderwen and Cardiganshire Farmers Cooperative Limited
Banwy Fuels coal merchants
Emo Oil
Kingside Ballast working the tailing from Cwmystwyth Mines
Panoramas
Track Plan
