Tygwyn railway station

Tygwyn
Tygwyn railway station has been "adopted" by the local community for maintenance and decoration.
Location
Place	Glan-y-wern
Local authority	Gwynedd
Grid reference	SH602349
Operations
Station code	TYG
Managed by	Arriva Trains Wales
Number of platforms	1
DfT category	F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	1,598
2005/06	845
2006/07	984
2007/08	1,384
2008/09	1,112
2009/10	2,072
2010/11	2,048
2011/12	1,422
2012/13	1,938
2013/14	1,364
2014/15	1,168
History
Original company	Aberystwyth and Welsh Coast Railway
Pre-grouping	Cambrian Railways
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Tygwyn from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
UK Railways portal

Tygwyn railway station (Welsh: Tŷ-gwyn) is located at a level crossing on the A496 between Harlech and Talsarnau near the estuary of the Afon Dwyryd in Gwynedd, Wales. The name translates to English as "White house".

History

British Rail requested the permission of the Secretary of State for Transport to close Tygwyn and three other Cambrian Coast stations (namely Abererch, Llandecwyn and Tonfanau) during the mid-1990s. Their winter 1995/96 timetable featured only two northbound and three southbound trains Mondays to Saturdays, with a note that the service may be withdrawn before 1 June 1996.^[1] The closure plans were eventually dropped and the station remains open today with a much improved service (all but one northbound train is scheduled to call in the summer 2016 timetable.^[2])

Facilities

The station remains as an unstaffed halt on the Cambrian Coast Railway with passenger services to Porthmadog, Pwllheli, Barmouth, Machynlleth and Shrewsbury. Most trains call only on request.

Looking north from the platform.

References

1. Regional Railways Central: "Cambrian Coaster Train Times", September 1995
2. Table 76 National Rail timetable, May 2016

• 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.

External links

• Train times and station information for Tygwyn railway station from National Rail
• RAILSCOT on Aberystwith and Welsh Coast Railway

Coordinates: 52°53′37″N 4°04′43″W / 52.893728°N 4.078597°W