Station code AMF DfT category F2 Number of platforms 1 | Grid reference SN623126 Managed by Arriva Trains Wales 2011/12 18,892 | |
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Similar Pantyffynnon railway station, Llandybie railway station, Bynea railway station, Ffairfach railway station, Llangennech railway station | ||
Ammanford railway station
Ammanford railway station serves the town of Ammanford in Carmarthenshire, Wales. Situated 12 miles (19.4 km) north of Swansea on today's Heart of Wales Line, the station was first opened in 1841 as a temporary terminus of the Llanelly Railway's line to Llandeilo (and branch to Cross Hands), making it one of the country's earliest railway stations.
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Originally called Duffryn, and then Tirydail, the station underwent a number of subsequent name changes (see the panel on the right) before being renamed Ammanford and Tirydail in 1960 following the closure in 1958 of Ammanford station on the Amman Valley branch railway. In 1973 Ammanford and Tirydail was renamed yet again: this time to plain Ammanford.
The station stands at street level about 800 m northwest of Ammanford town centre on Station Road (formerly Dyffryn Road). Old Ordnance Survey maps show that at some point between 1891 and 1906 the passenger platform was moved from the north to the south side of the Dyffryn Road level crossing. As with most of the stations on the Heart of Wales Line, the original rather elegant station buildings and signal box have been demolished and now the only structures are a platform and shelter.
History
Opened by the Llanelly Railway on 6 May 1841, the station was taken over jointly by the Great Western Railway and London and North Western Railway in 1873. It became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway as a result of the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed, upon nationalization of the railways in 1948, to the Western Region of British Railways. Under British Rail sectorisation from the 1980s until railway privatization, Ammanford station was served by Regional Railways.
The station appears several times and is mentioned by name in the 1951 'Festival of Britain film', David.
Services
All trains serving the station are operated by Arriva Trains Wales. There are four trains a day to Shrewsbury northbound from Monday to Saturday (plus a fifth to Llandovery) and five southbound to Llanelli & Swansea (the first train in each direction doesn't run on Saturdays); two services each way call on Sundays.