Cwm-y-Glo railway station

Cwm-y-Glo
Location of the station (1986)
Location
Area	Gwynedd
Coordinates	53°08′19″N 4°09′40″W / 53.1385°N 4.1610°W / 53.1385; -4.1610Coordinates: 53°08′19″N 4°09′40″W / 53.1385°N 4.1610°W / 53.1385; -4.1610
Grid reference	SH 555 623
Operations
Original company	Carnarvon and Llanberis Railway
Pre-grouping	London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping	London Midland and Scottish Railway
Platforms	1[1][2][3]
History
1 July 1869	Opened[4]
22 September 1930	Closed to regular passenger traffic[5][6]
September 1962	Excursions ceased
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Carnarvonshire Railway
Legend
Bangor and Carnarvon Railway to Bangor Caernarvon Carnarvon and Llanberis Railway Caernarfon(WHR) Quay Sidings Caernarvon (Morfa) Carnarvon (Pant) Pont Rug 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 and Welsh Coast Railway to Pwllheli Afon Wen Aberystwith and Welsh Coast Railway to Porthmadog

Cwm-y-Glo railway station served the village of Cwm y Glo, Gwynedd, Wales, at the north-west end of Llyn Padarn.^[7] The station was closed for regular passenger services in 1930 but trains passed through until September 1964.^[8][9]

The station lay on the nine mile LNWR branch line between Caernarfon and Llanberis which was established by the Caernarvon and Llanberis Railway Act 1864.

The Summer 1939 Working timetable shows that some excursions made unadvertised stops at the station.^[10]

The station was demolished in the 1970s when the realigned A4086 was built along the trackbed. A Public House called the Railway Inn is all that remains of the station as was, this pub is now known as Y Fricsan.

References

Sources

• Butt, R. V. J. (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 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199. 
• 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 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137. 
• Kneale, E.N. (1980). North Wales Steam, 1927-68. Poole, Dorset: Oxford Publishing Co. ISBN 0 86093 074 2. 
• 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 and 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. 
• Rear, W.G. (1979). London Midland steam in North Wales. Truro: D Bradford Barton Ltd. ISBN 0 85153 225 X. 
• Turner, Alun (2003). Gwynedd's Lost Railways. Catrine, Ayrshire: Stenlake Publishing. ISBN 9781840332599. 

Further material

• Kneale, E.N. (1986). North Wales Steam: v. 2. Poole, Dorset: Oxford Publishing Co. ISBN 0 86093 305 9. 

External links

• The station on a navigable OS Map, via National Library of Scotland
• The station and line, via Rail Map Online
• The station and line CLS with mileages, via Railway Codes
• Images of the station, via Yahoo
• The station and line, via Rail Chronology
• The station and line, via Signalling Record Society
• 1957 railtour including the line, via Manchester Railway Society
• 5 May 1957 railtour record, via Six Bells Junction