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Travel for Llandrindod tourists: Trains
The majority of visitors to the spa town of Llandrindod in 1891 would have arrived by train at the railway station.
Proximity to the station was seen as an asset by local
hoteliers.
 Belmont and London House Temperance Hotel, from Evans's Guide Powys County Archives |
 Llandrindod Wells Railway Station c.1885 Powys County Archives |
Various railway companies offered transport to the town.
This map shows the
routes available with
Cambrian Railways:
(Colour added for emphasis)
Powys County Archives
| London and North Western Railways | |
| From | Via |
| London | Stafford Shrewsbury and Craven Arms |
| Liverpool and Manchester | Crewe, Shrewsbury and Craven Arms |
| Birmingham | Stafford and Craven Arms |
| North Wales | Chester, Whitchurch and Shrewsbury |
| Swansea and Carmarthen | Llandilo |
| Cardiff, Newport | Craven Arms or Merthyr |
| Brecon Railway | |
| Cardiff, Newport | Talyllyn or Builth Road |
| Neath, Brecon | Talyllyn or Builth Road |
| Cambrian Railway | |
| North Wales | Avon-Wen, Welsh Coast Line, Moat Lane, Llanidloes & Builth Road |
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