Carnarvon (Pant) railway station

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Carnarvon (Pant)
General information
Location Caernarfon, Gwynedd
Wales
Coordinates 53°07′35″N4°16′23″W / 53.1265°N 4.2731°W / 53.1265; -4.2731 Coordinates: 53°07′35″N4°16′23″W / 53.1265°N 4.2731°W / 53.1265; -4.2731
Grid reference SH 480 612
Platforms1
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original company Carnarvonshire Railway
Pre-grouping London and North Western Railway
Key dates
2 September 1867 [1] [2] [3] Opened
1 August 1870 [1] or 3 January 1871 [4] or 5 July 1870 [5] [3] Closed, replaced by Carnarvon

Carnarvon (Pant) was the temporary northern terminus of the Carnarvonshire Railway, located on the southern fringe of Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales. [6]

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The line from Afon Wen to Caernarfon was built from the country end, as were the other standard gauge routes to the town, resulting in there being three temporary termini on the edges of Caernarfon. This was eventually resolved by building the "Caernarfon Town Line" [7] through a tunnel under the historic centre to join the various routes. When this was completed Pant station was closed.

The station appears to have been built on rented land, as in November 1868 a Mr Rice Thomas threatened to eject the railway from the station for non-payment of rent. [8] The facilities included a platform and a turntable, both still traceable on the land in the 1940s [1] and a siding which acted as an open air engine shed. [9]

Freight and passenger trains passed through the edge of the station site until 7 December 1964, when all services were withdrawn. The line was lifted in 1969.

In 1997 the Welsh Highland Railway began running through the edge of the station site, having used part of the trackbed for their narrow gauge line to Porthmadog.

Sources cited in this article differ on the station's location, research continues.

Preceding station Historical railways Following station
Terminus  Carnarvonshire Railway   Dinas Junction
Line and Station closed

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Boyd 1981, p. 75.
  2. ↑ Station history, via Disused Stations
  3. 1 2 Quick 2009, p. 110.
  4. ↑ Station history, via Disused Stations
  5. ↑ Turner 2003, p. 7.
  6. ↑ Boyd 1981, pp. 8 & 75.
  7. ↑ Town line history, via Disused Stations
  8. ↑ Dunn 1958, p. 595.
  9. ↑ Griffiths & Smith 1999, p. 197.

Sources

  • Boyd, James I.C. (1990) [1972]. Narrow Gauge Railways in North Caernarvonshire, Volume 1: The West. Headington: The Oakwood Press. ISBN   978-0-85361-273-5. OCLC   650247345.
  • Dunn, J.M. (September 1958). Cooke, B.W.C. (ed.). "The Afonwen Line-1". The Railway Magazine . London: Tothill Press Limited. 104 (689). ISSN   0033-8923.
  • Griffiths, Roger; Smith, Paul (1999). The Directory of British Engine Sheds and Principal Locomotive Servicing Points: 1 Southern England, the Midlands, East Anglia and Wales. OPC Railprint. ISBN   978-0-86093-542-1. OCLC   59458015.
  • Quick, Michael (2009) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (4th ed.). Oxford: Railway & Canal Historical Society. ISBN   978-0-901461-57-5. OCLC   612226077.
  • Turner, Alun (2003). Gwynedd's Lost Railways. Catrine: Stenlake Publishing. ISBN   978-1-84033-259-9.

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