Sugar Loaf railway station Sugar Loaf railway station Sugar Loaf railway station is a railway station in Powys, Wales, and is the most geographically remote station on the Heart of Wales Line. It is located one mile to the north-east of a small but prominent knoll known as Sugar Loaf, around which the A483 road loops. The line through here was opened by the Central Wales Extension Railway in 1868; the station was closed to passengers in 1965 but subsequently reopened to traffic in 1984. This station is a request stop used mainly by trekkers and cyclists, since it is the nearest stop to
Sugar Loaf railway station the Sugar Loaf vantage point, although it was originally built to serve a number of cottages occupied by railway workers (such as signalmen and track gangers). The children of the workers travelled by train to school in Llanwrtyd Wells. South of the station the line reaches the summit at above sea level and then passes beneath the hills via the Sugar Loaf tunnel, which is approached by gradients as steep as 1 in 60. It then descends steadily for the next down to . The climb up to the summit here was a challenging one for train crews in steam