Blaenau Ffestiniog railway station
Blaenau Ffestiniog 
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Blaenau Ffestiniog station is served by mainline standard gauge DMUs and narrow gauge trains of the Ffestiniog Railway
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| Location | |
| Place | Blaenau Ffestiniog |
| Local authority | Gwynedd |
| Coordinates | 52°59′41″N 3°56′18″W / 52.99460°N 3.93838°WCoordinates: 52°59′41″N 3°56′18″W / 52.99460°N 3.93838°W |
| Grid reference | SH700458 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | BFF |
| Managed by | Arriva Trains Wales (Platform 1) / Ffestiniog Railway (Platforms 2 & 3) |
| Number of platforms | 2 narrow gauge / 1 standard gauge |
| DfT category | F1 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 47,802 |
| 2012/13 |
 44,638 |
| 2013/14 |
44,828 |
| 2014/15 |
47,666 |
| 2015/16 |
35,826 ^ All National Rail only. |
| History | |
| Original company | Festiniog and Blaenau Railway |
| 30 May 1868 | Opened as Duffws |
| 1 November 1882 | Closed |
| 10 September 1883 | Re-opened and renamed as Blaenau Festiniog |
| 18 June 1951 | Renamed Blaenau Festiniog Central |
| 4 January 1960 | Closed |
| 21 March 1982 | Joint British Rail/Ffestiniog station open as Bleanau Ffestiniog Central |
| 22 March 1982 | Standard gauge (platform 1) opened |
| 25 May 1982 | Narrow gauge (platform 3) opened |
| ???? | Renamed Blaenau Ffestiniog |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Blaenau Ffestiniog from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Blaenau Ffestiniog railway station serves the slate mining town of Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales, and is the passenger terminus of the Conwy Valley Line from Llandudno Junction. Arriva Trains Wales operate through services to Llandudno Junction and Llandudno. The station is a joint station with the narrow gauge Ffestiniog Railway, which operates primarily tourist passenger services to Porthmadog throughout most of the year. A feature of the standard gauge service is the availability on trains and buses of the popular "Gwynedd Red Rover" day ticket.
The standard gauge side comprises a single platform (Platform 1) opening directly on to the station car park and the High Street. There is a standard gauge run-round loop used by occasional locomotive hauled charter trains. The narrow gauge side comprises an island platform (Platforms 2 and 3) with an overall roof reached via a footbridge and also from the standard gauge platform and the town centre by a pedestrian level crossing at the terminal end. Narrow gauge trains normally use Platform 3. There is also a narrow gauge run-round loop.
The complex and confusing evolution of Blaenau's passenger stations is explored here.
The first railway to be built in Blaenau Ffestiniog was the Festiniog Railway, which opened for slate traffic in 1836. The main line terminated at Dinas to the north west of the town (now buried under the spoil tip) with a branch line from a junction near Glanypwll to Duffws near the town centre. The first passenger trains ran from Porthmadog to Dinas on 6 January 1865 and the passenger station at Duffws opened in January 1866. Until 1870 alternate trains ran to Dinas and Duffws but by the end of 1870 Dinas passenger station had closed and all passenger services from then on terminated at Duffws.
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