Menai Bridge railway station

Menai Bridge
Station in 1966
General information
Location	Treborth, Gwynedd Wales
Coordinates	53°13′03″N4°09′46″W / 53.2176°N 4.1629°W / 53.2176; -4.1629
Grid reference	SH556711
Platforms	4
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Chester and Holyhead Railway
Pre-grouping	London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
1 October 1858	Opened [1]
14 February 1966	Closed to passengers [1]
4 March 1968	Closed for goods [1]

Menai Bridge railway station is a disused railway station situated in the Bangor suburb of Treborth in Gwynedd, North West Wales. It was built to serve the town of Menai Bridge on the Isle of Anglesey, although it was across the Menai Strait from the town, this station.

History

Opened on 1 October 1858 ^[2] it was a replacement for the earlier Britannia Bridge station, ^[3] named after the bridge of the same name which crosses the nearby Menai Strait a couple of hundred meters to the north.

The station was opened by the Chester and Holyhead Railway Company at the point where the main Chester to Holyhead line met the Bangor and Carnarvon Railway. There were four platforms, two for each line and two which formed an Island platform. The main station building was a large brick built, while there was a brick waiting shelter on the island platform. ^[1]

Closure

Treborth Business Park is standing on the site of former railway station

The station closed to passenger services on 14 February 1966. ^[4] In 1966 the Caernarfon line was switched to single track. On 4 August 1969 it closed to goods services. On 5 January 1970 the line also closed to passenger services. It was brought back into use for container traffic after 23 May 1970 Britannia Bridge fire. The bridge was repaired and re-opened on 30 January 1972. ^[5] After that date the Caernarfon line closed for good and was lifted. The North Wales Coast Line runs through the site of the station (and becomes a single track there) but no visible remains of it can be seen.

References

1. "Station Name: Menai Bridge". Disused Stations. Archived from the original on 3 July 2016. Retrieved 7 October 2016.
2. Treborth Botanic Gardens documents, mentioning the station opening on page 15 (archived copy)
3. "Station Name: Britannia Bridge". Disused Stations. Archived from the original on 27 September 2016. Retrieved 7 October 2016.
4. "Reference to station closure on a file describing the route from Bangor to Holyhead (archived copy)" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 5 May 2017. Retrieved 5 May 2017.
5. "Britannia Bridge Blaze, 23 May 1970". 21 May 2010. Archived from the original on 18 October 2016. Retrieved 7 October 2016.

Further reading

• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2010). Bangor to Portmadoc. West Sussex: Middleton Press. figs. 8-12. ISBN   9781906008727. OCLC   548582976.
• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2011). Bangor to Holyhead. West Sussex: Middleton Press. figs. 12-17. ISBN   9781908174017. OCLC   795179106.

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Bangor Line and station open		London and North Western Railway North Wales Coast Line		Llanfairpwll Line and station open
	Disused railways
Bangor Line and station open		London and North Western Railway Bangor and Carnarvon Railway		Treborth Line and station closed
Bangor Line and station open		London and North Western Railway Anglesey Central Railway		Llanfairpwll Line and station open