- Devil's Bridge railway station
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Devil's Bridge Pontarfynach 
Devil's Bridge station, showing the two platforms in use. Location Place Devil's Bridge Area Ceredigion Operations Operated by Vale of Rheidol Railway Platforms 2 History 1902 Station opens 1939-1945 Station closed owing to World War 2 1989 VoR privatised Stations on heritage railways in the United Kingdom A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Devil's Bridge railway station is a railway station serving Devil's Bridge in Ceredigion in Mid-Wales. It is the eastern terminus of the preserved Vale of Rheidol Railway.
The station has two principal platforms, each with a hard tarmac surface. Platforms on this railway are low-level, as passenger coaches are designed for ground level access, due to the number of intermediate stations without platform surfaces. The two platform lines both terminate in buffer stops, and each has a headshunt forward of bi-directional cross-over points for locomotive release. There is also a lengthy siding accessed from a set of points at the station mouth, and long enough to accommodate a train. In practice it is unusual to see more than one platform in use under the current timetable. However, the sight of a service train and a works train, or even a service train and a specially chartered passenger train at the station is still possible. The lengthy siding still makes possible the sight of three trains in this station simultaneously, and although now highly unusual most historical publications carry photographs of Devil's Bridge station with three trains present, and three locomotives in steam.
The station is equipped with a water tower, and station buildings providing waiting room, booking hall, booking office, and staff room, as well as lavatories. A separate temporary structure in the car park currently serves as a refreshment room and souvenir shop on railway operating days.
Preceding station 
Heritage railwaysFollowing station Rhiwfron Vale of Rheidol Railway Terminus Coordinates: 52°22′35″N 3°51′09″W / 52.37650°N 3.85240°W
Vale of Rheidol Railway Rolling stock Locomotives of the Vale of Rheidol Railway
Stations Aberystwyth • Llanbadarn • Glanrafon • Capel Bangor • Nantyronen • Aberffrwd • Rheidol Falls • Rhiwfron • Devil's Bridge
Miscellaneous Categories:- Heritage railway stations in Ceredigion
- Vale of Rheidol Railway stations
- Railway stations opened in 1902
- Railway stations closed in 1939
- Railway stations opened in 1945
- Railway stations closed in 1988
- Wales railway station stubs
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