Black Rock Halt railway station

Black Rock Halt was a railway station located in Gwynedd between Criccieth and Porthmadog on the former Aberystwith and Welsh Coast Railway. It served the popular beach at Black Rock Sands beyond the headland it is named after.

Black Rock Halt
Location	Between Criccieth & Porthmadog, Gwynedd Wales
Coordinates	52.91688°N 4.20366°W
Grid reference	SH 519 378
Platforms	1[1]
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Key dates
9 July 1923	Opened
13 August 1976	services withdrawn
27 June 1977	Officially closed

History

The halt was opened on 9 September 1923 by the Great Western Railway who saw themselves as the 'holiday line' and consisted of a 100-foot-long (30 m) wooden platform. The halt could be accessed by a path from the foot of the Black Rock (Welsh: Graig Ddu)

The station closed on safety grounds in August 1976, but was not officially closed until 27 June 1977. No trace of the wooden platform now remains.

The site today

Trains on the Cambrian Line pass the site of the former station, which is just about discernible on modern aerial photography.[2] The site of the halt can be seen from the Wales Coast Path.

References

1. Mitchell & Smith 2010, Photos 84 & 85.
2. The halt on a navigable OS map, overlaon onto satellite images, via National Library of Scotland

Sources

• 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 ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2010). Bangor to Portmadoc: Including Three Llanberis Lines (Country Railway Routes). Midhurst: Middleton Press. ISBN 978 1 906008 72 7.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Porthmadog Line and station open		Great Western Railway Cambrian Line		Criccieth Line and station open