Bryngwyn railway station

Infobox UK station
name = Bryngwyn
code =


caption =
manager = derelict/owned by Ffestiniog Railway
operator = derelict/owned by Ffestiniog Railway
locale = Bryngwyn Station
borough = Gwynedd
latitude = 53.082104
longitude = -4.248757
gridref =
platforms =
years = 1877
events = Opened
years1 = 26 September 1936
events1 = Closed
years2 =
events2 =

There is very little left of the original Bryngwyn station today which would have stood in the middle of fields near a farm where the station takes its namecite web
url = http://whr.bangor.ac.uk/bryngwyn.htm
title = The WHR Route: The Bryngwyn Branch
accessdate=2008-09-22
author=Ben Fisher] . The station consisted of a typical NWNGR station building, Signal Box, and a siding connecting a goods shed. Beyond the station the line was connected to the Slate Quarries of Moel Tryfan.

The station at Tryfan Junction, nor its branch to Bryngwyn has not been re-opened. It is intended that the branch will become a public footpath, although with conditions that this will not impede reopening of the branch line in the future.

At Bryngwyn a 1 in 10 balanced inclined plane owned by the Welsh Highland Railway led to an upper plateau from where quarry owned lines radiated to several slate quarries in the Moel Tryfan and Nantlle area. Although slate traffic continued as required until final closure in the 1930s, passenger trains ceased to operate on the branch in 1916.

The Station name board is preserved in the Tallylyn Narrow Gauge Railway Museum in Tywyn.

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References

ee also

* [http://www2.whr.co.uk/s/history/history3 Welsh Highland History, The Bryngwyn Branch]
* [http://www.frheritage.org.uk/wiki/Bryngwyn FR Heritage Wiki, Bryngwyn]
* [http://www.nantlle.com/history-rhostryfan-narrow-gauge-railway.htm A Glimpse of the Early Days of the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railway]
* North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways