Talerddig is a village in Powys, mid Wales, located on the main A470 road between Llanbrynmair and Carno. It is part of Llanbrynmair community.

Talerddig
Talerddig Location within Powys
OS grid reference	SH930001
Principal area	Powys
Ceremonial county	Powys
Country	Wales
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	LLANBRYNMAIR
Postcode district	SY19
Dialling code	01650
Police	Dyfed-Powys
Fire	Mid and West Wales
Ambulance	Welsh
UK Parliament	Montgomeryshire
Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament	Montgomeryshire
List of places UK Wales Powys 52.588359°N 3.579007°W / 52.588359; -3.579007

Talerddig cutting

Although the village no longer has a railway station, it is on the route of the 1863 constructed Newtown and Machynlleth Railway. The route passes through Talerddig cutting, a significant civil engineering achievement of the 1860s being 120 feet (37 m) deep and cut through solid rock, and the deepest in the world at the time of its completion in 1862.[1][2]

There was an accident in the cutting on 18 January 1921, of which several pictures survive. There remains a passing loop today on the single track Cambrian Line where Talerddig railway station existed until 1965. The passing loop was 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.[3]

Gallery

• 
  Aberystwyth - Shrewsbury train at Talerddig in 1953
• 
  Talerddig Cutting in 2001. This was the deepest in the world at the time of its opening in the early 1860s. The original near-vertical sides have since been trimmed back
• 
  Talerddig Signal Box. The railway line lies behind the signal box

References

External links

• Photos of Talerddig and surrounding area on geograph
• 1921 rail crash: Picture 1, Picture 2, Picture 3