Arenig railway station
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Site of the station in 1992
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| Location | |
| Place | Arenig, west of Bala |
| Area | Gwynedd |
| Coordinates | 52°56′18″N 3°44′27″W / 52.9382°N 3.7408°WCoordinates: 52°56′18″N 3°44′27″W / 52.9382°N 3.7408°W |
| Grid reference | SH 831 392 |
| Operations | |
| Original company | Bala and Festiniog Railway |
| Pre-grouping | Great Western Railway |
| Platforms | 2 |
| History | |
| 1 November 1882 | Opened |
| 4 January 1960 | Closed to passengers |
| 28 January 1961 | Closed completely |
| Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom | |
| Closed railway stations in Britain A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z |
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Arenig railway station stood beneath Arenig Fawr on the Great Western Railway's Bala Ffestiniog Line in Gwynedd, Wales. It served this thinly populated upland area, but its particular purposes were to serve Arenig Granite quarry which opened in 1908 next to the station and to act as a passing loop on the largely single-track route. The railway was the quarry's main carrier and also its main customer, crushed stone being used for track ballast.
The station closed to passengers in January 1960 and freight a year later, with the last revenue earning train on 27 January 1961.
In 1882 the Bala and Ffestiniog Railway opened the line from Bala Junction to a temporary terminus at Festiniog, Arenig was one of the stations opened with the line. At Festiniog passengers had to transfer to narrow gauge trains if they wished to continue northwards. To do this people travelling from Bala to Blaenau or beyond walked the few yards from the standard gauge train to the narrow gauge train much as they do today between the Conwy Valley Line and the Ffestiniog Railway at Blaenau Ffestiniog.
The following year the narrow gauge line was converted to standard gauge, but narrow gauge trains continued to run until 5 September 1883 using a third rail. Standard gauge trains first ran through from Bala to Blaenau Ffestiniog on 10 September 1883. The line was taken over by the Great Western Railway (GWR) in 1910.
The station remained part of the GWR through the Grouping of 1923, passing to the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. It was closed by the British Transport Commission, primarily because the line was to be flooded by damming east of Arenig. The station was staffed to the end.
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