Llanuwchllyn railway station

Llanuwchllyn
Llanuwchllyn
Station on heritage railway
General information
Location	Llanuwchllyn, Gwynedd; Wales
Coordinates	52°51′21″N 3°39′51″W / 52.855858°N 3.664221°W
Grid reference	SH880300
Managed by	Bala Lake Railway
Platforms	2
Key dates
1868	Station opened
18 January 1965	Closed to passengers
4 May 1964	Closed to goods
14 Aug 1972	Reopened by Bala Lake Railway

Llanuwchllyn railway station (Welsh: [ɬaˈnɨuχɬɨn] (listen)) in the village of Llanuwchllyn, Gwynedd, Wales, was formerly a station on the Ruabon to Barmouth line. It closed to passengers on Monday 18 January 1965 at the same time as the rest of the line, but subsequently reopened in 1972 as the southern (and main) terminus of the narrow gauge Bala Lake Railway. The station had a signal box and was a passing place on the single line.

Bala Lake Railway

Legend

Ruabon–Barmouth line

Bala (Penybont)

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originally

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(closed 2011)

Ruabon–Barmouth line

The station buffet was the original waiting room, and the seating section was once a waiting room at Barmouth Junction. The main building has been extended on the site of the old toilets to provide a booking office and store room.

The canopy supports were built for the Cambrian Railways station at Pwllheli, but were taken down in 1907. Following use at Aberdovey until 1979, they were moved to Llanuwchllyn.

The cattle dock is now the picnic area, the stone goods shed is a woodworking shop and the waiting room on platform two is an office. The original signal box remains.^[1]

According to the Official Handbook of Stations the following classes of traffic were being handled at this station in 1956: Goods traffic, Passengers and Parcels traffic, Vans and Machines on road wheels by Goods train, Live Stock, Horse Boxes, and Cars and road carriages by Passenger train; and there was a 1-ton 10-cwt crane.^[2]