Llangybi railway station (Ceredigion) Llangybi railway station (Ceredigion) Llangybi railway station, previously served the village and rural locale of Llangybi on the Carmarthen Aberystwyth Line in the Welsh county of Ceredigion. The Manchester and Milford Railway (M&MR) opened from Pencader to Aberystwyth on 12 August 1867. The line went into receivership from 1875 to 1900. The Great Western Railway took over the service in 1906, and fully absorbed the line in 1911. The Great Western Railway and the station passed on to British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. It was then closed by the British Railways Board. The OS maps and photographs show that
Kingdom of Ceredigion situated in the Vale of Cothi, in Cantref Mawr, and far south of the county boundary of the Teifi, were sometimes spoken of as being in Cardiganshire (Ceredigion). The "Chronicon" of Adam of Usk states that the cwmwd of Caio (properly Cynwyl Caio) was situated ""in Comitatu di Cardikan"." In the Charter of Talley Abbey, Brechfa is also spoken of as ""Lanteilau Brechfa apud Keredigaun"." These statements may be simply mistakes, or they may be echoes of the fact that the kings of Ceredigion conquered Y Cantref Mawr in, the eighth century. The same authority on Welsh topography also deals