The Gwili Railway may be somewhat 'off the beaten track', but ambitions burn as brightly in Carmarthenshire as anywhere else and the line will soon increase its length from two-and-a-half miles to almost four. The GR is based at Bronwydd Arms, on the former Great Western Railway line from Carmarthen to Aberystwyth. If Bronwydd Arms sounds like the name of a pub, it was! The station was named after a hostelry that lay about a quarter of a mile away, but has long been demolished. Although there are houses and a cricket ground near the station, the railway is generally surrounded by picturesque scenery ranging from fields to steep wooded hillsides. It climbs the progressively narrowing valley of the Afon Gwili, bridging the river no fewer than eight times between Bronwydd Arms and Llanpumpsaint, although the GR's track does not presently extend as far as the latter station.
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