Hay-on-Wye railway station

Former railway station in Powys, Wales

Hay-on-Wye

The site of the former station in 2001

General information
Location| Hay-on-Wye, Powys
Wales
Coordinates| 52°04′42″N 3°07′29″W﻿ / ﻿52.0783°N 3.1247°W﻿ / 52.0783; -3.1247
Grid reference| SO229428
Other information
Status| Disused
History
Original company| Hereford, Hay and Brecon Railway
Pre-grouping| Midland Railway
Post-grouping| London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
11 July 1864| Opened
1962| Closed[1]

Hay was a railway station serving the town of Hay-on-Wye in Powys, Wales, although the station was located just across the English border in Herefordshire. Hay had one of the earliest railway stations in the country, being part of a horse-drawn tramway.

## Railway lines from Hay station[edit]

A 1905 Railway Clearing House Junction Diagram showing (lower left) railways in the vicinity of Hay-on-Wye (shown here as Hay)

The Hay Railway, a horse-worked freight tramroad, opened from the Brecon & Abergavenny Canal at Brecon to Hay on 7 May 1816. The line was opened from Hay to Clifford Castle on 30 July 1817. The line was not completed between The Lakes at Clifford and Eardisley until 1 December 1818 because of the problem of the river crossing at Whitney-on-Wye. The Hay Railway was sold in 1860 to the Hereford, Hay and Brecon Railway (HH&BR) which made use of parts of its route.

The HH&BR was a struggling local line, much of it built by Thomas Savin, contractor and builder of many Welsh lines. It was completed in 1864. Like most local lines it was eventually rescued by a larger company - not the Great Western Railway, in whose territory it might be thought to lie - but the Midland Railway, which used it and other lines which it acquired or had running powers over, to put together a through route from Birmingham to Swansea via Hereford, Brecon, the Neath and Brecon Railway and the Swansea Vale Railway.

The Golden Valley Railway, which had its northern junction at Hay and ran through the Golden Valley to Pontrilas, was built between 1876 and 1889, was closed down in 1898, and then rescued by the Great Western Railway in 1901. It survived as a passenger line until 1941 and goods until the 1950s.

The whole of the Hereford to Brecon line including Hay was closed on 31 December 1962 and completely dismantled by 1963.

## See also[edit]

* Hay Railway

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Railways - Horse and Steam". Glasbury Historical Society. Retrieved 9 March 2017.

* Trace the complete route on this Google Map
* Gallery
* Thomas Savin - railway engineer
* Herefordshire - Golden Valley Line
* Hay-on-Wye station on navigable 1949 O. S. map
* Pugh, Eric (2002). Old Hay in Pictures and Prints. POH Publishing. ISBN 0-9543918-0-2.

## Further reading[edit]

* Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2007). Branch Lines around Hay-on-Wye. Middleton Press. figs. 99-106. ISBN 9781904474920. OCLC 288983659.

Preceding station  |  | Disused railways  |  | Following station

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Glasbury-on-Wye
Line and station closed |  | London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Hereford, Hay and Brecon Railway |  | Whitney-on-Wye
Line and station closed
| Great Western Railway
Golden Valley Railway |  | Clifford
Line and station closed

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