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University and the Cattle Market. Station
Terrace has retained its name, and the railway bridge over the River Teifi near the Co-operative Supermarket still stands. The remains of the platforms still exist on the grounds of the university, heavily overgrown, and is not accessible to the public. A bridge once carried the railway over the A482, but this has since been dismantled, although the trackbed still remains in both directions. Local residents have been campaigning for the return of the railway to Lampeter.
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Services at the time were limited, with only three trains running every day except
Sundays. However, even this service enabled Lampeter to become an important station, although the cost of building the railway was slowly bankrupting the company. A steam Locomotive, No7 "Carmarthen", exploded at
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Maesycreigiau in 1890, and the
Cambrian Railway took the M&M to court over unpaid bills. The railway was originally owned by the Manchester and Milford Railway Company, but owing to great financial difficulties, it was sold to the Great Western Railway in 1906.
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203:Silian Halt
782:Categories
752:52°06′56″N
704:References
610:Carmarthen
509:Afon Aeron
379:Felin Fach
250:Afon Denys
755:4°04′22″W
736:931112387
672:Terminus
587:Aberaeron
562:, on the
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62:Legend
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