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Where the track swings sharp right towards Pante Farm, turn left and climb a stile beside a gate (waymarker) and walk along the right edge of a sloping field to a stile on the far side, leading onto an access drive to cottages and follow this down to the A484. Cross the A484 to a footpath on the far side and bear left, turning right at the first opportunity at the junction leading to the Gwili Steam Railway. To visit the railway continue down the road for 350 metres to reach Bronwydd Station on the left where there are toilets and a café.

Steaming up on the Gwili line

The Gwili Railway is a lovingly restored monument to the nostalgic days of steam that now puffs its way along part of what was formerly the Carmarthen to Aberystwyth railway, which operated for over 100 years until closure in 1965. The Gwili Railway was formed in 1975 and by 1978 had purchased and rescued about 13km of track bed and was running its first steam-hauled service on just over a 1.5km section of what is the first standard-gauge railway to be preserved in Wales. Since then the railway has expanded and currently runs to Danycoed Halt, some 5km northwest of its base at Bronwydd Arms. At the time of writing, the company has begun work further south, towards Carmarthen, and has re-laid track to a new station called Carmarthen North built at the old Abergwili junction.