Llangelynin railway station

Former railway station in Wales

52°38′39″N 4°06′48″W / 52.6442°N 4.1132°W / 52.6442; -4.1132Platforms1Other informationStatusDisusedHistoryPost-groupingGreat Western RailwayKey dates7 July 1930Opened25 October 1991^[1]Closed

Llangelynin station was a single-platform halt on the Cambrian Line, which served the small village of Llangelynin in Gwynedd, Wales. It was opened in 1930 by the Great Western Railway and was known as Llangelynin Halt.

It was closed by British Rail in 1991;^[1] all stations had to be lit at night on safety grounds and it was deemed not worth the upgrade.^[2] Train services were officially "suspend[ed] ... until further notice" with effect from 18 November 1991; the "unsafe condition of the platform" was given as the reason.^[3] The line is still open, but trains no longer call at the station.

References

^ ^a ^b "List of dates from 1 January 1985 to 20 January 2006 of last passenger trains at closed BR (or Network Rail stations since privatisation)" (PDF). Department for Transport Website: Freedom of Information Act responses, February 2006. Department for Transport. 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 May 2009. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
^ "Llangelynin station". Subterranea Britannica. Retrieved 9 August 2008.
^ "Section 3.3: Llangelynin station". British Rail Sales Circular (265). Swindon: British Rail Sales Communications Unit (published 10 November 1991): 10. 16 November 1991.