Dolgarrog railway station

Dolgarrog
Dolgarrog station platform
Location
Place	Dolgarrog
Local authority	Conwy
Grid reference	SH782670
Operations
Station code	DLG
Managed by	Arriva Trains Wales
Number of platforms	1
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2002/03	1,494
2004/05	992
2005/06	1,424
2006/07	1,106
2007/08	840
2008/09	664
2009/10	382
2010/11	472
2011/12	612
2012/13	508
2013/14	828
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Dolgarrog from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Dolgarrog railway station is an unstaffed halt, and a request stop, on the Conwy Valley Line from Llandudno Junction to Blaenau Ffestiniog.

The station is located on the east bank of the River Conwy just across the A470 road from Plas Maenan, which was the home of Henry Jack, the Managing Director of the Aluminium Corporation from 1916 to 1927, together with its associated enterprises including the Ffestiniog Railway and the Welsh Highland Railway. Plas Maenan is now a small country house hotel and restaurant with views across the valley.

History

The station was built by the LNWR in 1916 to provide sidings and an interchange facility with a short standard gauge industrial line, built by the Aluminium Corporation to serve Dolgarrog village and the aluminium works that are about a mile from the station on the west bank of the river.

The industrial line crossed the river by a substantial girder bridge (still used as a footbridge, which is the only way to reach the station from the village of Dolgarrog). It was initially equipped with two locomotives, ten 12 ton wagons, and two passenger carriages. Morning and evening passenger services were free and operated from 1917 to 1932. Goods traffic, which was heavy during the war, continued but declined in the 1950s. The line closed in 1960 and was lifted in 1964.

Plas Maenan Hotel

Services

Five southbound and six northbound trains call on request Mon-Sat (approximately every three hours), with three trains each way on Sundays between May and early September.

References

• Dolgarrog, an Industrial History, Eric Jones and David Gwyn, Gwynedd Archives, 1989 ISBN 0-901337-50-1

External links

• Train times and station information for Dolgarrog railway station from National Rail
• Conwy Valley Railway
• Dolgarrog Railway Society

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Tal-y-Cafn		Arriva Trains Wales Conwy Valley Line		North Llanrwst

Coordinates: 53°11′10″N 3°49′23″W / 53.186°N 3.823°W / 53.186; -3.823