Boston Lodge Halt railway station

Boston Lodge Halt
Station on heritage railway
Taliesin shunting train into the old locomotive shed at Boston Lodge, 2003
General information
Location	Near Porthmadog, Gwynedd Wales
Coordinates	52°55′15″N4°06′17″W / 52.92086°N 4.10469°W / 52.92086; -4.10469
Grid reference	SH584378
Owned by	Festiniog Railway Company
Managed by	Ffestiniog Railway
Platforms	1
Key dates
July 1928	Opened
15 September 1939	Closed
23 July 1955	Re-opened

Boston Lodge Halt in North Wales is an unstaffed halt on the narrow gauge Ffestiniog Railway, which was built in 1836 to carry dressed slate from Blaenau Ffestiniog to Porthmadog for export by sea.

History

This halt opened in July 1928 and is situated behind the picture in the side panel, accessed from a steep road off from the A487 road at the start of a footpath leading to Portmeirion. It is at a height of 25 ft (7.6 m) and a distance of just over 1 mile (1.6 km) from Porthmadog. The halt closed on 15 September 1939 and reopened on 23 July 1955. For that short 1955 season of the re-opening of the Festiniog Railway, Boston Lodge Halt was the temporary terminus.

Its main use is chiefly by visitors and staff to the adjacent Boston Lodge Works of the Festiniog Railway Company and by a few walkers. Trains call at this halt only on request and intending passengers are advised to check with train guard before embarking on their journey.

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  Up the Line from Boston Lodge, towards Blaenau Ffestiniog
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  view across the causeway towards Porthmadog

Services

Preceding station	Heritage railways			Following station
Porthmadog Harbour Terminus		Ffestiniog Railway		Minffordd towards Blaenau Ffestiniog

Sources

• Boyd, James I.C. (1975) [1959]. The Festiniog Railway 1800 - 1974; Vol. 1 - History and Route. The British Narrow Gauge Railway. Blandford: The Oakwood Press. ISBN   978-0-85361-167-7. OCLC   2074549. B1A.
• Boyd, James I.C. (1975) [1959]. The Festiniog Railway 1800 - 1974; Vol. 2 - Locomotives and Rolling Stock; Quarries and Branches: Rebirth 1954-74. The British Narrow Gauge Railway. Blandford: The Oakwood Press. ISBN   978-0-85361-168-4. OCLC   874117875. B1B.

Further reading

• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (1995). Porthmadog to Blaenau. West Sussex: Middleton Press. figs. 39-40. ISBN   9781873793503. OCLC   877269886.

External links

• The Ffestiniog Railway Company's website
• Ffestiniog Railway Timetables Archived 21 March 2013 at the Wayback Machine
• Multimap Map of Boston Lodge