Talerddig is a village in Powys

Powys

Powys is a local-government county and preserved county in Wales.-Geography:Powys covers the historic counties of Montgomeryshire and Radnorshire, most of Brecknockshire , and a small part of Denbighshire — an area of 5,179 km², making it the largest county in Wales by land area.It is...

, Mid Wales

Mid Wales

Mid Wales is the name given to the central region of Wales. The Mid Wales Regional Committee of the National Assembly for Wales covered the counties of Ceredigion and Powys and the area of Gwynedd that had previously been the district of Meirionydd. A similar definition is used by the BBC...

 located on the main A470 road

A470 road

The A470 is a major long-distance connective spine road in Wales, running from Cardiff on the south coast to Llandudno on the north coast. It covers approximately 186 miles , over a zig-zagging route through the entirety of the country's mountainous central region, including the Brecon Beacons and...

 between Llanbrynmair

Llanbrynmair

Llanbrynmair is a village and community in Powys, Mid Wales on the A470 road between Caersws and Machynlleth. Llanbrynmair, in area, is the second largest in Powys. In 2005, it had a population of 958.-Description:...

 and Carno

Carno

Carno is a village in Powys, Mid Wales. It is located on the main A470 road between Llanbrynmair & Caersws.The local railway station, on the Cambrian Line, closed as part of the Beeching closures in the 1965. An ongoing campaign started in August 2009 for its reopening, with the Welsh Assembly...

. It is part of Llanbrynmair community

Community (Wales)

A community is a division of land in Wales that forms the lowest-tier of local government in Wales. Welsh communities are analogous to civil parishes in England....

 and Anglican parish

Parish

A parish is a territorial unit historically under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of one parish priest, who might be assisted in his pastoral duties by a curate or curates - also priests but not the parish priest - from a more or less central parish church with its associated organization...

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Although the village no longer has a station, it is on the railway line between Newtown and Machynlleth

Machynlleth

Machynlleth is a market town in Powys, Wales. It is in the Dyfi Valley at the intersection of the A487 and the A489 roads.Machynlleth was the seat of Owain Glyndŵr's Welsh Parliament in 1404, and as such claims to be the "ancient capital of Wales". However, it has never held any official...

. The route passes through Talerddig cutting, a significant engineering achievement of the 1860s being 120 feet (36.6 m) deep and cut through solid rock, and the deepest in the world at the time of its completion in 1862.

There remains a passing loop

Passing loop

A passing loop is a place on a single line railway or tramway, often located at a station, where trains or trams in opposing directions can pass each other. Trains/trams in the same direction can also overtake, providing that the signalling arrangement allows it...

 on this single track line, retained in track rationalisations of the 1970s due to the need to 'pin down' the brakes on freight trains over the summit, and now a critical operational node for passing passenger trains.http://carnostation.org.uk/node/23

There was an accident in the cutting 18th Jan 1921 of which several pictures survive.
http://www.peoplescollectionwales.co.uk/Item/41928-talerddig-train-crash
http://www.peoplescollectionwales.co.uk/Item/41971-talerddig-train-crash
http://www.peoplescollectionwales.co.uk/Item/41929-talerddig-train-crash

External links

• Photos of Talerddig and surrounding area on geograph