Tyddyngwyn railway station
| Tyddyngwyn | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Place | Manod, Blaenau Ffestiniog |
| Area | Gwynedd |
| Coordinates | 52°58′56″N 3°55′54″W / 52.9821°N 3.9317°WCoordinates: 52°58′56″N 3°55′54″W / 52.9821°N 3.9317°W |
| Grid reference | SH 704 445 |
| Operations | |
| Original company | Festiniog and Blaenau Railway |
| Platforms | 0 |
| History | |
| 29 or 30 May 1868 | Opened |
| 5 September 1883 | Last passenger train called |
| 10 September 1883 | Standard gauge opened at nearby Manod |
| January 1960 | Passenger trains ended through the station site |
| 27 January 1961 | Line closed and mothballed |
| 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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Tyddyngwyn railway station was immediately north of the later Manod station in what was then Merionethshire, now Gwynedd, Wales.
Tyddyngwyn was an intermediate station on the 1 ft 11 3⁄4 in (603 mm)narrow gauge Festiniog and Blaenau Railway (F&BR); it opened with the line on 29 May 1868, though two standard sources give 30 May 1868. The F&BR ran the three and a half route miles northwards from its southern terminus at Llan Ffestiniog to a junction with the Ffestiniog Railway (FR) at Dolgarregddu Junction near what is nowadays Bleaenau Ffestiniog station.
The station was a passenger station, whose main but not sole traffic was quarrymen travelling to and from work
In common with all other F&BR stations there were no platforms, carriages were very low to the ground, so passengers boarded from and alighted to the trackside. The station had a single-storey building on the eastern side of the track. No details of the station's facilities have been published, though the standard work conjectures there may have been a siding. In common with Festiniog and Tan-y-Manod stations, the only published photographs were taken from a distance, they lend the buildings the appearance of corrugated iron. The sole close-up photo is of the line's northern terminus - Duffws (F&BR). This shows the building to bear a striking resemblance to 21st Century PVC weatherboarding. If the line's other stations were made of the same material that would explain their corrugated mien.
The February 1878 narrow gauge timetable shows that all trains called at all stations on the line, with
Duffws was the F&BR's Blaenau station and would become the site of the town's later GWR station, but it was not the Festiniog Railway's Duffws (FR) station. Through passengers from Tyddyngwyn to Porthmadog Harbour would alight at the F&BR's Duffws station and walk across Church Street in Blaenau to the Festiniog Railway's completely separate Duffws station. Most trains were timetabled to make this process workable, if tight. Whether connecting trains were held in the case of late running is not recorded.
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