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{{Infobox UK disused station #REDIRECT ]
| name = Talgarth
| locale = ]
| borough = ]
| image_name = Talgarth station by Jaggery.jpg
| caption = Talgarth station in 2010
| original = ]
| pregroup = ]
| postgroup = ]
| platforms = 2
| coordinates = {{coord|51.9958|-3.2353|type:railwaystation_region:GB|display=inline,title}}
| gridref = SO152337
| years1 = 21 September 1864
| events1 = Opened<ref name=Quick>{{Quick-Stations|page=375}}</ref>
| years2 = 31 December 1962
| events2 = Closed<ref name=Quick/>
}}

'''Talgarth railway station''' is a former railway station on the ]. It opened in 1864 and closed in 1962, serving the town of ], ].

==History==
The station was opened in 1864 concurrent with the opening of the Mid-Wales company line between {{rws|Llanidloes}} and {{rws|Talyllyn Junction}}; regular services commenced in September 1864 but special trains had run at the end of August.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001467/18640831/131/0007 |title=Opening of the Mid-Wales Railway |work=Eddowe's Shrewsbury Journal |date=31 August 1864 |page=7 |issue=1,145 |volume=22
|url-access=subscription |via=]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000914/18640923/014/0004 |title=Opening of the Mid-Wales Railway |work=Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian |date=23 September 1864 |page=4 |issue=1715 |volume=XXXI
|url-access=subscription |via=]}}</ref>

Closure came on 31 December 1962 when all lines to Brecon including the Mid-Wales line were closed.<ref>{{cite journal |work=Journal of Transport History |page=3 |publisher=Leicester University Press |title=The Heyday of the British Railway system: Vanishing evidence and the historian's task |last=Mowat |first=C.L. |volume=1 |issue=1 |year=1971}}</ref>

==Present day==
The original station buildings survive as private residence and the trackbed is now in use as part of the ].

==References==
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