Nantlle railway station

Nantlle
Nantlle
	Nantlle railway station c 1875
Location	Talysarn, Gwynedd ; Wales
Coordinates	53°03′08″N4°15′28″W / 53.0522°N 4.2577°W Coordinates: 53°03′08″N4°15′28″W / 53.0522°N 4.2577°W
Grid reference	SH 487 529
Platforms	1
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
1 October 1872	Opened
1 January 1917	Closed as a wartime economy measure
5 May 1919 or July 1919	Reopened
8 August 1932	Closed to passengers
2 December 1963	Closed completely

Last updated January 19, 2022

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From 1828 the narrow gauge, horse-drawn Nantlle Railway ran from wharves at Caernarfon through Penygroes and through the site of the future Nantlle station to slate quarries around the village of Nantlle. In the 1860s the Carnarvonshire Railway built a new standard gauge line southwards from Caernarfon to Afon Wen, replacing the Nantlle Railway's tracks as far south as Penygroes. The Nantlle quarries and railway were very much still in business, so they continued to send their products to Caernarfon by transhipping them onto the new railway at Tyddyn Bengam a short distance north of Penygroes.

This arrangement continued until 1872 when the LNWR repeated the earlier process and built a standard gauge branch partly on the Nantlle Railway trackbed from Penygroes to Talysarn, where it built a wholly new passenger station which it called Nantlle, though in reality the branch only reached half way to the village of Nantlle. This station included a locomotive servicing area at its eastern end.^[6]

From then onwards products were transshipped from the quarry wagons onto standard gauge wagons in the goods yard^[7] at "Nantlle" station. The narrow gauge wagons were manoeuvred by horse and by hand, a way of working which, remarkably, survived until 1963.

Passenger traffic along the branch, which was less than a mile and a half long, was not heavy. The station closed to normal passenger traffic in 1932, though excursion traffic (mostly outbound from Nantlle) continued until 1939.

The station closed completely in 1963. The station building was still standing in 2012, though most other infrastructure had long been built over.^[8]

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References

↑ Mitchell & Smith 2010, Photos 53-59 & Map XV.
↑ Quick 2009, p. 284.
1 2 Turner 2003, p. 13.
↑ Butt 1995, p. 166.
↑ The station, via Disused Stations
↑ Griffiths & Smith 1999, p. 197.
↑ "Nantlle (Talysarn) exchange sidings". flickr.
↑ Shannon & Hillmer 1999, pp. 22–23.

Sources

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Christiansen, Rex (1976). Forgotten Railways: North and Mid Wales . Newton Abbot, Devon: David and Charles. ISBN 0-7153-7059-6.
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.
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Rear, W.G. (2012). Caernarvon & the Lines from Afonwen & Llanberis: 28: Scenes from the Past Railways of North Wales. Nottingham: Book Law Publications. ISBN 9-781907-094781.
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Further material

Clemens, Jim (2003) [1959-67]. North Wales Steam Lines No. 6 (DVD). Uffington, Shropshire: B&R Video Productions. BRVP No 79.
Dunn, J.M. (September 1958). Cooke, B.W.C. (ed.). "The Afonwen Line-1". The Railway Magazine . London: Tothill Press Limited. 104 (689).
Smith, Martin, ed. (May 2011). "The Nantlle Tramway". Railway Bylines. Vol. 16 no. 6. Clophill, Bedfordshire: Irwell Press. pp. 306–313. ISSN 1360-2098.

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Terminus		London and North Western Railway		Penygroes Line and Station closed

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[FOOTNOTEMitchellSmith2010Photos_53-59_&_Map_XV-1] Mitchell & Smith 2010, Photos 53-59 & Map XV.

[FOOTNOTEQuick2009284-2] Quick 2009, p. 284.

[FOOTNOTETurner200313-3] 1 2 Turner 2003, p. 13.

[FOOTNOTEButt1995166-4] Butt 1995, p. 166.

[5] The station, via Disused Stations

[FOOTNOTEGriffithsSmith1999197-6] Griffiths & Smith 1999, p. 197.

[7] "Nantlle (Talysarn) exchange sidings". flickr.

[FOOTNOTEShannonHillmer199922–23-8] Shannon & Hillmer 1999, pp. 22–23.

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Nantlle
Nantlle railway station c 1875
Location	Talysarn, Gwynedd Wales
Coordinates	53°03′08″N4°15′28″W / 53.0522°N 4.2577°W / 53.0522; -4.2577 Coordinates: 53°03′08″N4°15′28″W / 53.0522°N 4.2577°W / 53.0522; -4.2577
Grid reference	SH 487 529
Platforms	1^[1]
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
1 October 1872	Opened
1 January 1917	Closed as a wartime economy measure
5 May 1919^[2] or July 1919^[3]	Reopened
8 August 1932	Closed to passengers
2 December 1963	Closed completely^[4]^[5]^[3]