Arthog railway station

Arthog
View up Afon Mawddach valley towards site of Arthog station in 1999
General information
Location	Arthog, Gwynedd Wales
Coordinates	52.71343°N 4.01481°W / 52.71343; -4.01481
Platforms	1
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Aberystwith and Welsh Coast Railway
Pre-grouping	Cambrian Railways (GWR)
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Key dates
28 Mar 1870	Opened [1]
18 Jan 1965	Closed to passengers [1]
4 May 1964	Closed to goods [2]

Arthog railway station in Gwynedd, Wales, was a station on the Dolgelly [sic] branch of the Aberystwith and Welsh Coast Railway (part of the Ruabon to Barmouth Line). It closed to passengers on 18 January 1965.^[1]

History

The station was built by the Aberystwith and Welsh Coast Railway, which became part of the Cambrian Railways before becoming part of the Great Western Railway. The line then passed on to the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948, and was closed by the British Railways Board. A camping coach was positioned here by the Western Region from 1953 to 1962.^[3] According to the Official Handbook of Stations the following classes of traffic were being handled at this station in 1956: G & P and there was no crane.^[4]

The site today

The former trackbed is now the Llwybr Mawddach (or "Mawddach Trail"), but there are no remains of the station except for the access road running from the A493 to the station site.

Neighbouring stations

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Barmouth Junction Line closed, station open		Cambrian Railways Aberystwith and Welsh Coast Railway		Penmaenpool Line and station closed

References

1. Butt (1995), page 19
2. Clinker, C.R., (1978) Clinker’s Register of Closed Stations, Avon Anglia ISBN 0-905466-19-5
3. McRae, Andrew (1998). British Railways Camping Coach Holidays: A Tour of Britain in the 1950s and 1960s. Vol. Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part Two). Foxline. p. 112. ISBN 1-870119-53-3.
4. 1956, Official Handbook of Stations, British Transport Commission

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.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.

Further reading

• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2010). Ruabon to Barmouth. West Sussex: Middleton Press. figs. 103-106. ISBN 9781906008840. OCLC 651922152.

External links

• Arthog station on navigable 1946 O. S. map