Tyddyngwyn railway station

Tyddyngwyn
General information
LocationManod, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd
Wales
Coordinates52°58′56″N 3°55′54″W / 52.9821°N 3.9317°W / 52.9821; -3.9317
Grid referenceSH 704 445
Platforms0[1]
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyFestiniog and Blaenau Railway
Key dates
30[2][3] May 1868Opened
5 September 1883Last passenger train called[4]
10 September 1883Standard gauge opened at nearby Manod[5]
January 1960Passenger trains ended through the station site
27 January 1961Line closed and mothballed

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)[6] narrow gauge Festiniog and Blaenau Railway (F&BR); it opened with the line on 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 Blaenau Ffestiniog station.[7]

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.[8] 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).[9] This shows the building to bear a striking resemblance to weatherboarding. If the line's other stations were made of the same material that would explain their corrugated mien.

  1. ^ Boyd 1988, Page 49 plus Plate between pages 54 & 55.
  2. ^ Butt 1995, p. 236.
  3. ^ Quick 2009, Page 386 and Map 78.
  4. ^ Boyd 1988, p. 68.
  5. ^ Griffiths & Smith 1999, p. 195.
  6. ^ Boyd 1988, p. 47.
  7. ^ Boyd 1988, p. 66.
  8. ^ Boyd 1988, p. 71.
  9. ^ Prideaux 1982, p. 27.