Penmaenpool | |
|---|---|
 The former signal box at Penmaenpool, now in use as an RSPB information centre. (17 July 2004) | |
| General information | |
| Location | Penmaenpool, Gwynedd Wales |
| Coordinates | 52°44′55″N 3°56′04″W / 52.74857°N 3.93441°W |
| Platforms | 2 |
| Other information | |
| Status | Disused |
| History | |
| Original company | Aberystwith and Welsh Coast Railway |
| Pre-grouping | Cambrian Railways (GWR) |
| Post-grouping | Great Western Railway |
| Key dates | |
| 3 July 1865 | Opened as Penmaen Pool[1] |
| by 1904 | Renamed as Penmaenpool[1] |
| 18 January 1965 | Closed to passengers [1] |
| 4 May 1964 | Closed to goods [2] |
Penmaenpool railway station at Penmaenpool in Gwynedd, North Wales, was formerly a station on the Dolgelly [sic] branch of the Aberystwith and Welsh Coast Railway, part of the Ruabon to Barmouth Line. It closed to passengers on Monday 18 January 1965.
It had two platforms and a passing loop, plus an engine shed approximately half a mile west of the station next to the former fireman's house. According to the Official Handbook of Stations the following classes of traffic were being handled at this station in 1956: G, P, F, L, H & C and there was no crane.[3]
- ^ a b c Butt (1995), page 183
- ^ Clinker, C.R., (1978) Clinker’s Register of Closed Stations, Avon Anglia ISBN 0 905466 19 5
- ^ 1956, Official Handbook of Stations, British Transport Commission