place

Llanberis railway station (Llanberis Lake Railway)

All pages needing cleanupHeritage railway stations in GwyneddLlanberisPages with no open date in Infobox stationRailway stations built for UK heritage railways
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 2003Use British English from January 2017Wikipedia pages needing cleanup from December 2022
Llanberis station on the Llanberis Lake Railway (geograph 5475631)
Llanberis station on the Llanberis Lake Railway (geograph 5475631)

Llanberis (LLR) railway station is the southern terminus of the Llanberis Lake Railway (LLR), located in Llanberis, Gwynedd, Wales. The line and station primarily serve tourists and railway enthusiasts.Most of the LLR was laid around 1970 on the trackbed of the closed and lifted Padarn Railway. The line opened between Gilfach Ddu (LLR) and Cei Llydan on 28 May 1971, being extended northwards to Penllyn (LLR) in 1972. For thirty years the new line's southern terminus was Gilfach Ddu (LLR), situated a short distance south of the site of the Padarn Railway's former workmen's station, also named Gilfach Ddu. In 2003 a wholly new extension was opened south westwards, with Llanberis (LLR) station as the line's new southern terminus. The single platform station stands opposite Llanberis (SMR) station, the lower terminus of the Snowdon Mountain Railway, and not far from the site of the long-closed Llanberis standard gauge station.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Llanberis railway station (Llanberis Lake Railway) (License: CC BY-SA 3.0, Authors, Images).

Llanberis railway station (Llanberis Lake Railway)

Geographical coordinates (GPS) Address Nearby Places
placeShow on map

Wikipedia: Llanberis railway station (Llanberis Lake Railway)Continue reading on Wikipedia

Geographical coordinates (GPS)

Latitude Longitude
N 53.1174 ° E -4.1194 °
placeShow on map

Address


LL55 4TD , Llanberis
Wales, United Kingdom
mapOpen on Google Maps

Llanberis station on the Llanberis Lake Railway (geograph 5475631)
Llanberis station on the Llanberis Lake Railway (geograph 5475631)
Share experience

Nearby Places

Padarn Halt railway station

Padarn Halt was a passenger only railway station located in Llanberis, Gwynedd, Wales, on the western shore of Llyn Padarn. It opened on 21 November 1936 and closed on the outbreak of the Second World War. The line through the station remained in use for excursions until 1962 and for freight until 1964; it was lifted in 1965. The LMSR closed the Llanberis branch to regular passenger services in 1930, though frequent Summer excursions continued to run. In 1934 the company reinstated a regular Saturdays only train specifically to serve Caernarfon market. In many parts of Britain "Market Trains" were an established part of local commerce and social life in a way which has passed into history. Llanberis station was not in the centre of Llanberis, so the company built the halt half a mile from the terminus specifically for this market traffic. The halt opened on 21 November 1936, from which time the market trains used the halt there instead of at Llanberis station. The halt consisted of an unlit single wooden platform on trestles, with a very small wooden waiting shelter at its southern end. It was accessed by a gravel footpath which continued over the tracks to the lakeside by a foot crossing. The 1939 working timetable shows that some excursions made unadvertised stops at the halt.The track bed from Llanberis through the site of the halt (at what is now the lakeside entrance to the industrial estate) as far as Cwm-y-Glo is now occupied by the improved A4086, which by-passes the centre of Llanberis. No trace of the station remains.