Black Rock Halt railway station

Not to be confused with Blackrock railway station.

Black Rock Halt
General information
Location	Between Criccieth and Porthmadog, Gwynedd Wales
Coordinates	52°55′01″N4°12′13″W / 52.91688°N 4.20366°W / 52.91688; -4.20366
Grid reference	SH 519 378
Platforms	1 [1]
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Key dates
9 July 1923	Opened
13 August 1976	Services withdrawn
27 June 1977	Officially closed
Location

Black Rock Halt was a railway station in Gwynedd, located between Criccieth and Porthmadog on the former Aberystwith and Welsh Coast Railway. It served the popular beach at Black Rock Sands beyond the headland it is named after.

History

The halt, which could be accessed by a path from the foot of the Black Rock (Welsh : Graig Ddu), consisted of a 100-foot-long (30 m) wooden platform and was opened on 9 July 1923 ^[2] by the Great Western Railway, which saw itself as the 'holiday line'. It closed on safety grounds in August 1976, ^[3] but was not officially closed until 27 June 1977. No trace of the wooden platform now remains.

The site today

Trains on the Cambrian Line pass the site of the former station, which is just about discernible on modern aerial photography. ^[4] The site of the halt can be seen from the Wales Coast Path.

References

1. Mitchell & Smith 2010, Photos 84 & 85.
2. Railway Passenger Stations by M.Quick page 83
3. Young, Alan (30 December 2024). "Disused Stations - Black Rock Station". Facebook. Retrieved 17 September 2025.
4. The halt on a navigable OS map, overlaon onto satellite images, via National Library of Scotland

Sources

• Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN   978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC   60251199. OL   11956311M.
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN   978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC   22311137.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN   978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC   228266687.
• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2010). Bangor to Portmadoc: Including Three Llanberis Lines (Country Railway Routes). Midhurst: Middleton Press. ISBN   978-1-906008-72-7.

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Criccieth Line and station open		Great Western Railway Aberystwith and Welsh Coast Railway		Porthmadog Line and station open