Port Dinorwic railway station

Port Dinorwic railway station was the name of two railway stations located on the Bangor and Carnarvon Railway near the village of Port Dinorwic (now Y Felinheli), Gwynedd, Wales. The first station was opened in 1852 and closed in 1874.[1] A replacement station with the same name was opened later in 1874. This closed to passengers in 1960 and to all traffic in 1964.[2]

Port Dinorwic
Location	Port Dinorwic, Gwynedd Wales
Coordinates	53.1855°N 4.2050°W
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Bangor and Carnarvon Railway
Pre-grouping	London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
1852	Opened
1847	Closed and replacement opened
1960	Closed to passengers
1964	Closed to all traffic

The stations were not the first in the village. Previously a small station for goods only was opened in 1824 on the Dinorwic Railway,[3] which was later replaced by the 1842 Padarn Railway.[4] These were built to take slate from the Dinorwic Quarry to the village. The new station of 1852 however connected local residents to passenger services throughout the country.

The line through the 1852 station was doubled in 1872.[5] and it was decided to demolish it and build a new replacement on a site 200 yards to the south, nearer the village. This station was far more substantial with a two storey yellow brick station building, ticket office, waiting room and toilets. The second (down) platform was connected by an underpass to the first and had a yellow brick shelter on it. A small signal box was found close by.[6]

The main station building is still in existence and was listed Grade II in 1997.[7]

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Treborth		Bangor and Carnarvon Railway		Griffith's Crossing

References

1. 1st station page on disused-stations.org.uk
2. 2nd station page on disused-stations.org.uk
3. Mention of the Dinorwic Railway on a Welsh slate mining website
4. Information on the Padarn Railway on the Penmorfa website
5. Jones, Mark: Lost Railways of North Wales, page 152. Countryside Books, 2008
6. Website listing many signal boxes in the UK
7. The station's listed building entry on the register

Further reading

• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2010). Bangor to Portmadoc. West Sussex: Middleton Press. figs. 14-18. ISBN 9781906008727. OCLC 548582976.