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List of stations and halts

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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. 1 2 Jacobs, page 24
  2. 1 2 Boyd 1988, page 84
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Stations and Facilities". Talyllyn Railway. 2006-03-27. Archived from the original on 2008-04-15. Retrieved 2008-06-18.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Talyllyn handbook. The Talyllyn Railway Preservation Society. 1983.
  5. Boyd 1988, page 98
  6. Morland, page 83
  7. Boyd 1988, page 101
  8. Morland, page 84
  9. 1 2 Boyd 1988, page 103
  10. Boyd 1988, page 110
  11. Morland, page 123
  12. Boyd 1988, page 120
  13. Boyd 1988, page 131
  14. "The 'Guest House' opening at Quarry Siding". Talyllyh Railway. 13 May 2013. Archived from the original on 19 August 2013. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
  15. Boyd 1988, page 134
  16. Bate 2001, page 186
  17. Cite error: The named reference Mitchell and Eyres, 2005 page 7 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  18. Boyd 1988, page 159

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