Meillionen railway station

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Meillionen

A southerly view of the future Meillionen Halt

Location

Place

Beddgelert

Local authority

Gwynedd

Coordinates

53°01′05″N 4°07′22″W / 53.01817, -4.12290Coordinates: 53°01′05″N 4°07′22″W / 53.01817, -4.12290

Operations

Managed by

Ffestiniog Railway

Platforms in use

Line not yet open

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A northerly view of the future Beddgelert Forest Halt.

Meillionen railway station, formerly known as Beddgelert Forest Halt, is a new railway station on the Welsh Highland Railway. As of May, 2006, the platform is accessed through the Beddgelert Forest Campsite and laid with Tarmac complete with a concrete base for the waiting shelter.

The station is being built to serve the popular Beddgelert Forest Campsite, run by the Forestry Commission in association with The Camping and Caravanning Club. The station will have a waiting shelter, with the possibility of ticket sales, and will hopefully provide an alternative to travelling to Caernarfon or Porthmadog by car.

It is hoped to open the station with the through route from Caernarfon to Porthmadog at Easter 2009.

The name Meillionen derives from the Afon Meillionen (Welsh : Clover River) which runs under the railway a little to the north.^[1] The decision to rename the halt was taken to comply with the railway's policy of naming halts in Welsh only. This also avoided an unfeasibly-large bilingual sign.