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List of stations and halts
[edit]| Name | Image | Distance from Towyn Wharf[1] | Elevation | Grid Reference | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tywyn Wharf | n/a | 40 ft (12 m)[2] | SH586004 | The line's western terminus and main station. Location of the Narrow Gauge Railway Museum, gift shop and cafe.[3] | |
| Pendre | 0.42 miles (0.68 km) | 43 ft (13 m)[2] | SH590008 | This is a request stop serving the east end of Tywyn. Location of the locomotive and carriage sheds and workshops for the line.[3] A passing loop and 15-lever ground frame is located just to the west of the station, to allow trains to pass here.[4] | |
| Hendy | 0.94 miles (1.51 km) | 57 ft (17 m)[5] | SH597012 | Request stop serving Hendy farm.[6] | |
| Fach goch | 1.44 miles (2.32 km) | 70 ft (21 m)[7] | SH605017 | Request stop on the occupational crossing, serving Fach Goch farm. There was a siding here between 1971 and 1982, used for dumping spoil.[8] This is currently least-used halt on the railway. | |
| Cynfal | 1.86 miles (2.99 km) | 91 ft (28 m)[9] | grid reference SH610020 | Request stop serving Cynfal farm. Has one of the smallest railway platforms in the UK, vying with Pentrepiod Halt on the Bala Lake Railway and Coed y Bleiddiau halt — a private halt on the Ffestiniog Railway – for the title of smallest. Used to be very little used, however has its traffic levels recovered slightly in the early 2010s. | |
| Rhydyronen | 2.15 miles (3.46 km) | 100 ft (30 m)[9] | SH614021 | This was the first intermediate station to be built on the railway, opened in 1867. It has a slate built waiting shelter and is now a request stop. A small slate quarry and manganese mine nearby once used the railway. | |
| Tynllwynhen | 2.49 miles (4.01 km) | 102 ft (31 m)[1] | SH618025 | Request stop serving Tynllwyn-hen farm. Second least used halt on the railway, after Fach-Goch. | |
| Brynglas | 3.18 miles (5.12 km) | 124 ft (38 m)[10] | SH628030 | Serves the hamlet of Pandy.[3] A passing loop and 6-lever ground frame is located just to the west of the station, to allow trains to pass, along with a siding used for engineering trains.[11][4] In the late 1870s/early 1880s, some slate quarrying was carried out nearby, at the Cwm-Pandy quarry. | |
| Dolgoch | 4.90 miles (7.89 km) | 187 ft (57 m)[12] | SH650045 | Built to provides access, mainly for tourist traffic,[4] to the nearby Dolgoch Falls, which is a popular series of waterfalls.[3] In the late 1870s/early 1880s, some slate quarrying was carried out nearby, at the Dolgoch quarry. | |
| Quarry Siding | 5.33 miles (8.58 km) | 202 ft (62 m)[13] | SH654050 | Request stop, once known as Tanycoed. Formerly served a small shale quarry, which supplied the Talyllyn Railway with ballast for many years. A passing loop and 5-lever ground frame is here to allow trains to pass,[4] and a carriage shed is located here, known as the "Guest House" after a former member of the preservation society whose legacy funded the shed's building.[14] | |
| Abergynolwyn | 6.57 miles (10.57 km) | 242 ft (74 m)[15] | SH670063 | The original passenger terminus of the line. Most trains stop here on the return journey for refreshments, as there are no facilities at Nant Gwernol. The station has a 620 ft (198 m) long platform, capable of holding two trains.[16] This is believed to be the longest platform on a narrow gauge railway in Britain.[4] | |
| Nant Gwernol | 7.25 miles (11.67 km)[17] | 270 ft (82 m)[18] | SH680065 | The passenger station was opened in 1976, at the eastern limit of locomotive working on the mineral railway between Abergynolwyn Station and Bryn-Eglwys, which was at foot of the Alltwyllt incline, the first of two inclines between the Talyllyn Railway and the Bryn-Eglwys Quarry.[4] |
- 1 2 Jacobs, page 24
- 1 2 Boyd 1988, page 84
- 1 2 3 4 "Stations and Facilities". Talyllyn Railway. 2006-03-27. Archived from the original on 2008-04-15. Retrieved 2008-06-18.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Talyllyn handbook. The Talyllyn Railway Preservation Society. 1983.
- ↑ Boyd 1988, page 98
- ↑ Morland, page 83
- ↑ Boyd 1988, page 101
- ↑ Morland, page 84
- 1 2 Boyd 1988, page 103
- ↑ Boyd 1988, page 110
- ↑ Morland, page 123
- ↑ Boyd 1988, page 120
- ↑ Boyd 1988, page 131
- ↑ "The 'Guest House' opening at Quarry Siding". Talyllyh Railway. 13 May 2013. Archived from the original on 19 August 2013. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
- ↑ Boyd 1988, page 134
- ↑ Bate 2001, page 186
- ↑ Cite error: The named reference
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