Chwilog railway station

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Chwilog
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Site of the former station in 1986
General information
Location Chwilog, Gwynedd
Wales
Coordinates 52°55′13″N4°19′50″W / 52.92027°N 4.33050°W / 52.92027; -4.33050 Coordinates: 52°55′13″N4°19′50″W / 52.92027°N 4.33050°W / 52.92027; -4.33050
Grid reference SH 433 384
Platforms1 [1] [2]
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original company London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Western Region of British Railways
Key dates
2 September 1867 [3] Line and station opened
7 December 1964Line and station closed [4] [5] [6]

Chwilog railway station served the village of Chwilog, Gwynedd, Wales. It was opened in 1867 by the Carnarvonshire Railway, who were subsequently taken over by the LNWR, passing to the LMSR at the Grouping of 1923. The station came under the London Midland Region of British Railways from nationalisation in 1948.

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A year after the station opened £100 was spent improving its passenger accommodation. [7]

Apart from goods and passenger services normal for a country station, a strong milk traffic was developed, culminating in a train of five vans of churns being sent to Liverpool daily from 1943 to 1949. The siding at Chwilog could only accommodate five vans, so the opportunity to expand the business was lost to road traffic in winter 1949–50. [8]

The line and station closed in December 1964.

In 2015 the station area was covered by a bus station, but the platform was still in place behind a new housing estate and the station master's house was in use as a private residence.

Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Llangybi
Line and Station closed		  London and North Western Railway
Carnarvonshire Railway 		  Afon Wen
Line closed; Station closed

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References

  1. ↑ Mitchell & Smith 2010, Photos 73-5 & Map XX.
  2. ↑ Rear 2012, pp. 31–33.
  3. ↑ Quick 2009, p. 71.
  4. ↑ Butt 1995, p. 61.
  5. ↑ "The station". Disused Stations.
  6. ↑ Turner 2003, pp. 7 & 12.
  7. ↑ Dunn 1958, p. 595.
  8. ↑ Rear 2012, p. 31.

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