Maentwrog Road railway station

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Maentwrog Road railway station was a railway station on the Great Western Railway's Bala Ffestiniog Line in Wales. It closed to passenger services on 2 January 1960 and freight services on 27 January 1961.

The line through the station site was reopened in 1964 for freight to the nearby Trawsfynydd nuclear power station.

During the 1980s a siding was constructed in the former goods yard at Maentwrog Road for freight deliveries to the explosives factory in Penrhyndeudraeth. This was necessary as locomotive hauled trains had been banned from the usual route along the Cambrian Line owing to concerns regarding the structural condition of Barmouth Bridge.

Passenger trains briefly returned to the station in the 1989, using a temporary platform in the old goods yard. These trains ran for one summer in an attempt to encourage tourism at Trawsfynydd power station.

The station building and adjacent station-master's house remain in situ and have been in use as private residences for several years.

In 2002 the A470 bridge at the north end of the station was rebuilt.