- Source: Kidwelly Flats Halt railway station
Kidwelly Flats Halt railway station served the Royal Ordnance Factory (ROF) and RAF Pembrey at Pembrey, Carmarthenshire, Wales between 1941 and 1957. It was on the West Wales Line.
History
The station was opened on 6 July 1941 by the Great Western Railway and closed by British Railways in 1957. It was on the section of the South Wales Railway which opened in 1852 and was situated between Kidwelly and Pembrey and Burry Port stations. Lando Platform or Halt station was also located between Kidwelly Flats and Pembrey and Burry Port stations between 1928 and 1964.
Infrastructure
The station had two platforms on a double track section of line. It partly lay beneath the road bridge and nothing now remains of the station. The station had no sidings or freight facilities.
Services
The station was not open to the general public. Mostly workers arriving from the west used the station from where a bus would take them to the ordnance factory.
Routes
See also
West Wales lines
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Kidwelly Flats Halt railway station
- Kidwelly (disambiguation)
- Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway
- Cockett railway station
- List of closed railway stations in Britain: K-L
- Great Western Railway in West Wales
- South Wales Railway
- Tutshill for Beachley Halt railway station
- Loughor railway station
- West Wales lines
