Black Rock Halt railway station

Black Rock Halt
Location
Place	Between Criccieth & Porthmadog
Area	Gwynedd
Coordinates	52°55′01″N 4°12′13″W / 52.91688°N 4.20366°WCoordinates: 52°55′01″N 4°12′13″W / 52.91688°N 4.20366°W
Grid reference	SH 519 378
Operations
Original company	Great Western Railway
Platforms	1[1]
History
9 July 1923	Opened
13 August 1976	Closed
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Black Rock Halt was a railway station located in Gwynedd between Criccieth and Porthmadog on the former Aberystwyth and Welsh Coast Railway. It served the popular beach at Black Rock Sands.

History

The halt was opened on 9 September 1923 by the Great Western Railway who saw themselves as the 'holiday line' and consisted of a 100-foot-long (30 m) wooden platform.

The station closed on safety grounds in August 1976, but was not removed from the working timetable until the following year when official closure took place. No trace of the wooden platform now remains.

The site today

Trains on the Cambrian Line pass the site of the former station, which is just about discernible on modern aerial photography.^[2]

References

1. Mitchell & Smith 2010, Photos 84 & 85.
2. The halt on a navigable OS map, overlaon onto satellite images, via National Library of Scotland

Sources

• Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687.
• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2010). Bangor to Portmadoc: Including Three Llanberis Lines (Country Railway Routes). Midhurst: Middleton Press. ISBN 978 1 906008 72 7.