Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HEREFORD, HAY, AND BRECON RAILWAY

HEREFORD, HAY, AND BRECON RAILWAY, a railway in the counties of Hereford and Brecon; from the city of Hereford to the town of Brecon. An act of Aug. 1859 autliorized a line from the Shrewsbury and Hereford at Hereford city, throngh Hay, to Brecon, -the length to be 34 miles; an act of July 1860 authorized the relinquishment of the junction with the Shrewsbury and Hereford, and the substitution of a junction witli the Newport, Abei.gavenny, and Hereford section of the West Midland at Barton station; and an act of June 1862 authorized various alterations of levels and deviations of the line, The railway goes from Hereford city west-uorth-westward to Eardisley; and goes thence southwestward, throngh Hay. to Brecon. It was opened to Eardisley, in June 1863; to Three-Cocks Junction, 5¼ miles SW of Hay, in Jan. 1865; and to Brecon, in the same year. It will be connected, at Eardisley, with a line going north-north-eastward into junction with the Kington railway, between Titley and Penibridge; it is connected, at Three-Cocks Junction, with a line going north-westward, throngh Builth, to Rhayader and Llanidloes; it is connected, at Talyllyn Junction, 3 ¾ miles ENE of Brecon, with a line going southward to Merthyr-Tydvil; and it will be connected at Brecon with a line going west by northward to Llandovery.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a railway"   (ADL Feature Type: "railroad features")
Administrative units: Brecknockshire AncC       Herefordshire AncC
Place: Hereford

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