Llangollen railway station
| Llangollen | |
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Alongside the River Dee
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| Location | |
| Place | Llangollen |
| Area | Denbighshire |
| Coordinates | 52°58′15″N 3°10′13″W / 52.9709°N 3.1703°WCoordinates: 52°58′15″N 3°10′13″W / 52.9709°N 3.1703°W |
| Grid reference | SJ214421 |
| Operations | |
| Original company | Vale of Llangollen Railway |
| Managed by | Llangollen Railway |
| Pre-grouping | Great Western Railway |
| Post-grouping | Great Western Railway |
| Platforms | 2 |
| History | |
| 2 June 1862 | Opened |
| 18 January 1965 | Closed for passengers |
| April 1968 | Closed for goods traffic |
| 13 September 1975 | The Llangollen Railway is formed and begins reconstruction westwards |
| 1981 | Llangollen Station re-opens officially |
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Llangollen railway station in the town of Llangollen, Denbighshire, Wales, is a preserved railway station on the former Ruabon to Barmouth Line, and now the eastern terminus of the preserved Llangollen Railway.
Llangollen was already a popular place for Victorian era tourists by the 1840s. Travel up to this point had been by horse-drawn carriage, but by the 1840s the Shrewsbury to Chester line had been completed, allowing passengers to alight at Llangollen Road, and then take a coach towards Holyhead.
However, the commercial development of the local mining industry meant that the development of a railway became essential to the regions economic development. A number of schemes were proposed, including one by the LNWR, but it not until 1 August 1859 that scheme engineered by Henry Robertson received Royal Assent. The 5.25 miles (8.45 km) Vale of Llangollen Railway left the Shrewsbury to Chester main line .5 miles (0.80 km) south of Ruabon, and built as a single track line on a double track route proceeded via Acrefair to the new station at Llangollen. The line opened to freight on 1 December 1861, and to passengers on 2 June 1862 at a temporary terminus on the towns eastern outskirts.
The extension to Corwen was undertaken by the associated but separate Llangollen and Corwen Railway company, and involved constructing a long tunnel under the local Berwyn Mountains. It, together with the new centrally positioned and larger station in Llangollen, opened for service on 1 May 1865.
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