Tyddyngwyn railway station
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Tyddyngwyn railway station was immediately north of the later Manod station in what was then Merionethshire, now Gwynedd, Wales.
Tyddyngwyn | |
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General information | |
Location | Manod, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd Wales |
Coordinates | 52.9821°N 3.9317°W / 52.9821; -3.9317 |
Grid reference | SH 704 445 |
Platforms | 0[1] |
Other information | |
Status | Disused |
History | |
Original company | Festiniog and Blaenau Railway |
Key dates | |
30[2][3] May 1868 | Opened |
5 September 1883 | Last passenger train called[4] |
10 September 1883 | Standard gauge opened at nearby Manod[5] |
January 1960 | Passenger trains ended through the station site |
27 January 1961 | Line closed and mothballed |
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Tyddyngwyn was an intermediate station on the 1 ft 11+3⁄4 in (603 mm)[6] narrow gauge Festiniog and Blaenau Railway (F&BR); it opened with the line on 30 May 1868. The F&BR ran the three and a half route miles northwards from its southern terminus at Llan Ffestiniog to a junction with the Ffestiniog Railway (FR) at Dolgarregddu Junction near what is nowadays Blaenau Ffestiniog station.[7]
The station was a passenger station, whose main but not sole traffic was quarrymen travelling to and from work
In common with all other F&BR stations there were no platforms, carriages were very low to the ground, so passengers boarded from and alighted to the trackside. The station had a single-storey building on the eastern side of the track. No details of the station's facilities have been published, though the standard work conjectures there may have been a siding.[8] In common with Festiniog and Tan-y-Manod stations, the only published photographs were taken from a distance, they lend the buildings the appearance of corrugated iron. The sole close-up photo is of the line's northern terminus - Duffws (F&BR).[9] This shows the building to bear a striking resemblance to weatherboarding. If the line's other stations were made of the same material that would explain their corrugated mien.