The two branches cost £263,459 to build, of which £5,100 was lent by the Great Western Railway (GWR).
c. lxvii) received royal assent on 30 June 1862, authorising the company to raise £100,000, buy and convert the Kington Tramway to standard gauge and build a link from Lyonshall to Marston, which was never built.
Thomas Savin, the railway contractor, backed the scheme, though his £16,000 of shares were sold when he went bankrupt in January 1866.
It reopened with one train a day from Titley to Almeley on 18 September 1922 and fully on 11 December 1922.
[1] Stanner became an unstaffed halt from April 1938 and coal shortages (explained in a House of Commons speech as due to weather and productivity declines)[2] stopped all passenger trains to New Radnor from 5 February 1951.