Dinas railway station

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Dinas
Location
Place	Dinas, Llanwnda
Local authority	Gwynedd
Operations
Managed by	Ffestiniog Railway
Platforms in use	2
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Original NWNGR Station Building of 1877

Dinas is a station on the narrow gauge Welsh Highland Railway, which was built in 1877 as the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways Moel Tryfan Undertaking to carry dressed slate for trans-shipment to the LNWR. Passenger services ceased on September 26, 1936 until which time Dinas had been a joint station, known as Dinas Junction with the LNWR and later the LMS. Years later in December 1964, British Railways closed their part of the station and their entire line from Caernarfon to Afon Wen which was subsequently developed as the Lôn Eifion tourist cycle route.

When the station was reopened on October 11, 1997 it was as the southern temporary terminus of the extended and to be restored Welsh Highland Railway from Caernarfon. The line was extended on August 7, 2000, following the complete reconstruction of the railway on it original trackbed, to Waunfawr and in 2003 to Rhyd Ddu. Work started in 2005 on the final stage of reconstruction from Rhyd Ddu railway station to Beddgelert and Porthmadog. The train services are operated by the Ffestiniog Railway Company.

At Dinas, the new narrow gauge platforms are built on the site of the former standard gauge platforms. Two buildiings survive from the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways era, the former goods shed and the original and carefully restored station building. Dinas station yards house the Welsh Highland Railway offices, carriage sheds and locomotive depot as well as extensive civil engineering works and sidings.