Arthog railway station

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Arthog
Arthog Afon Mawddach valley geograph-3237427-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg
View up Afon Mawddach valley towards site of Arthog station in 1999
General information
Location Arthog, Gwynedd
Wales
Coordinates 52°42′48″N4°00′53″W / 52.71343°N 4.01481°W / 52.71343; -4.01481
Platforms1
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original company Aberystwith and Welsh Coast Railway
Pre-grouping Cambrian Railways (GWR)
Post-grouping Great Western Railway
Key dates
28 Mar 1870Opened [1]
18 Jan 1965Closed to passengers [1]
4 May 1964Closed to goods [2]
Location
Arthog railway station

Arthog railway station in Gwynedd, Wales, was a station on the Dolgelly[ sic ] branch of the Aberystwith and Welsh Coast Railway (part of the Ruabon to Barmouth Line). It closed to passengers on 18 January 1965. [1]

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History

The station was built by the Aberystwith and Welsh Coast Railway, which became part of the Cambrian Railways before becoming part of the Great Western Railway. The line then passed on to the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948, and was closed by the British Railways Board. A camping coach was positioned here by the Western Region from 1953 to 1962. [3] According to the Official Handbook of Stations the following classes of traffic were being handled at this station in 1956: G & P and there was no crane. [4]

The site today

The former trackbed is now the Llwybr Mawddach (or "Mawddach Trail"), but there are no remains of the station except for the access road running from the A493 to the station site.

Neighbouring stations

Preceding stationDisused railwaysFollowing station
Barmouth Junction
Line closed, station open		  Cambrian Railways
Aberystwith and Welsh Coast Railway 		  Penmaenpool
Line and station closed

References

  1. 1 2 3 Butt (1995), page 19
  2. ↑ Clinker, C.R., (1978) Clinker’s Register of Closed Stations, Avon Anglia ISBN   0-905466-19-5
  3. ↑ McRae, Andrew (1998). British Railways Camping Coach Holidays: A Tour of Britain in the 1950s and 1960s. Vol. Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part Two). Foxline. p. 112. ISBN   1-870119-53-3.
  4. ↑ 1956, Official Handbook of Stations , British Transport Commission

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