However, even this service enabled Lampeter to become an important station, although the cost of building the railway was slowly bankrupting the company.
During the Second World War, specifically on Saturday 8 July 1944, Lampeter railway station received a contingent of 330 evacuee children from London who were then distributed to homes in and around the local area (including the village of Cribyn).
[2] Milk continued to be conveyed by railway until 1973 when the traffic was transferred to the road, and the tracks were lifted shortly afterwards.
The former existence of the presence of a railway in Lampeter is still obvious; the large station and goods yard are now part of the University and the Cattle Market.
Station Terrace has retained its name, and the railway bridge over the River Teifi near the Co-operative Supermarket still stands.