Wolf's Castle Halt railway station

Wolf's Castle Halt railway station was on the Clarbeston Road and Letterston line of the Great Western Railway. It served the villages of Wolf's Castle and Ford between 1913 and 1964.HistoryThe Clarbeston Road and Letterston Railway, s subsidiary of the Great Western Railway (GWR), was opened on 30 August 1906, but at first there were no intermediate stations. However, there was a signal box at Wolf's Castle, because although most of the route was built as double track, a portion near the middle, which included Spittal Tunnel and the cutting through Treffgarne Gorge, was single-track, and it was necessary to have signal boxes at each end of the single-track section. The single-track section was later doubled, but although the temporary signal boxes at Spittal and Treffgarne closed with the introduction of full double-track working on 17 December 1906, Wolf's Castle signal box was retained to break the section, allowing two trains to proceed in the same direction between Clarbeston Road and Letterston simultaneously; there was also a crossover.The first of three intermediate stations to open on the line was Wolf's Castle Halt on 1 October 1913. It was situated 251mi from Paddington (via the Severn Tunnel), and was on a level stretch of line to the east of the signal box. The stations to either side in 1923 were and. Unusually for a GWR halt, the two platforms were built of brick rather than wood, as were the shelters. The up platform was 115ft long, and the down platform was 155ft long. The station nameboards stated "Wolf's Castle Halt for Treffgarne Rocks". The service was operated using GWR steam rail motors running between and ; there were three trains a day in each direction.