Dinas railway station

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Dinas
Welsh Highland train to Waunfawr at Dinas 2003
Location
Place Dinas, Llanwnda
Local authority Gwynedd
Coordinates 53°06′15″N 4°16′35″W / 53.104194, -4.276278Coordinates: 53°06′15″N 4°16′35″W / 53.104194, -4.276278
Operations
Managed by Ffestiniog Railway
Platforms in use 2
History
9 September 1867 Standard Gauge opened
1877 Narrow Gauge opened
26 September 1936 Narrow Gauge closed
December 1964 Standard Gauge closed
11 October 1997 Re-opened (as narrow gauge)
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Original NWNGR Station Building of 1877
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 26 September 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 11 October 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 7 August 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 buildings survive from the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways era, namely the former goods shed and the original station building which has been carefully restored. Dinas station yards house the Welsh Highland Railway offices, carriage sheds and locomotive depot as well as extensive civil engineering works and sidings.

[edit] References

  • 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, Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199. 


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Preceding station Heritage Railways  Heritage railways Following station
Bontnewydd   Welsh Highland Railway   Waunfawr
Historical Railways
Caernarfon (L&NWR)
Line partly open as narrow gauge;
Station closed		   Carnarvonshire Railway   Llanwnda
Line and Station closed