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OPERATIONS at the Gwili Railway are set to be transformed this coming season, with services starting at Abergwili Junction (AJ) rather than Bronwydd Arms, which has served as the line’s headquarters since the section of the former Carmarthen to Aberstwyth route reopened as a heritage line in 1978.
AJ lies on the edge of Carmarthen. While the site of the junction itself is now under the roundabout on Carmarthen bypass, trains could once take the LNWR line to Llandeilo or the GWR route to Lampeter and Aberystwyth.
Gwili passenger trains have operated to AJ since summer 2017, although the station has been merely a bare platform. In the intervening period a vast amount of work has been underway on developing plans to create a southern terminus. Physical work began on the project in 2020.
With the site having been used as a ‘borrow’ pit for the construction of the Carmarthen bypass in the late 1990s, the land was made up of various mounds of differing materials. Therefore, the large flat spaces required for its new use as a station required a large amount of material to be removed from the southern to the northern end of the site. This resulted in levels at the northern end of the site rising
