Ammanford
Site of Ammanford Station
General information
Location	Ammanford, Carmarthenshire Wales
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Llanelly Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Key dates
10 April 1840	Station opened as Cross Inn
1 July 1883	Station renamed Ammanford
18 August 1958	Station closed

Ammanford railway station was opened under the name Cross Inn by the Llanelly Railway in 1840 to serve the town of Ammanford, West Wales. It was renamed Ammanford in 1883. The station was the main one in the town until it closed in 1958, leaving the current Ammanford station (then known as Tirydail, later Ammanford & Tirydail) providing trains for the area.

Opened by the Llanelly Railway, then by the Great Western Railway, staying with that company during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

The station was then closed by the British Transport Commission.

• Ammanford Colliery Halt railway station
• Ammanford railway station

• Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
• Station on navigable O.S. map. Station nearest coach station marked Bettws.

51°47′28″N 3°59′10″W / 51.791054°N 3.986149°W / 51.791054; -3.986149

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