Pant Glas railway station

Pant Glas
Remains of the station in 1999
General information
Location	Gwynedd Wales
Coordinates	53°00′00″N4°16′58″W / 53.0001°N 4.2828°W / 53.0001; -4.2828
Grid reference	SH 468 471
Platforms	1 [1]
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
June 1872	Opened as "Pant Glas Siding" [2]
1912	Renamed "Pant Glas"
7 January 1957	Closed [3] [4] [5]
Location

v t e Carnarvonshire Railway
Legend
Bangor and Carnarvon Railway to Bangor Caernarvon Carnarvon and Llanberis Railway Caernarfon (WHR) Quay sidings Caernarvon (Morfa) Carnarvon (Pant) Pont Rug Halt Pontrhythallt Bontnewydd (WHR) Cwm-y-Glo Llanberis Tunnel Glynrhonwy Quarries Padarn Halt Llanberis Dinas Junction Welsh Highland Railway Llanwnda Groeslon Penygroes Nantlle Branch Junction Nantlle summit Pant Glas Brynkir Ynys Llangybi Chwilog Aberystwith & Welsh Coast Rly to Pwllheli Afon Wen Aberystwith & Welsh Coast Rly to Porthmadog

Pant Glas was a railway station opened by the LNWR in Pant Glas, Gwynedd, Wales, serving a sparsely populated rural area. Custom was never heavy, leading to goods services being withdrawn in 1952 and the station being closed in 1957, ^[6] though traffic continued to pass through until the line closed on 7 December 1964 as recommended in the Beeching Report.

References

1. Mitchell & Smith 2010, Photos 60-62 & Map XVI.
2. Quick 2009, p. 304.
3. The station, via Disused Stations
4. Butt 1995, p. 180.
5. Turner 2003, pp. 7 & 8.
6. Rear 2012, p. 39.

Sources

• Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN   978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC   60251199. OL   11956311M.
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN   978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC   22311137.
• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2010). Bangor to Portmadoc: Including Three Llanberis Lines. Country Railway Routes. Midhurst: Middleton Press. ISBN   978-1-906008-72-7.
• 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.
• 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.
• Turner, Alun (2003). Gwynedd's Lost Railways. Catrine, Ayrshire: Stenlake Publishing. ISBN   9781840332599.

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 . 104 (689). London: Tothill Press Limited.

External links

• The station site on a navigable OS Map, via National Library of Scotland
• The station and line, via Rail Map Online
• The line CNV with mileages, via Railway Codes
• Images of the station, via Yahoo
• The station and line, via LNWR Society Archived 19 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine
• By DMU from Pwllheli to Amlwch, via Huntley Archives

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Penygroes Line and Station closed		Carnarvonshire Railway		Brynkir Line and Station closed