Abertafol railway station

Abertafol
General information
Location	Aber-Tafol, Gwynedd Wales
Line(s)	Cambrian Line
Platforms	1
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Key dates
18 March 1935	Station opens as Abertafol Halt
6 May 1968	Station renamed Abertafol
14 May 1984	Last Train
30 September 1985	Station closes (officially)

Abertafol railway station was a halt located on the north shore of the Dyfi estuary in the old Welsh county of Merionethshire (south Gwynedd).

History

Opened by the Great Western Railway on 18 March 1935 and originally named Abertafol Halt, the station passed on to the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. Renamed Abertafol on 6 May 1968, services were suspended from 14 May 1984 due to the deteriorating structural condition of the platform and cost of repairs needed.[1] The station was officially closed by the British Railways Board on 30 September 1985.[2]

The site today

Trains on the Cambrian Line pass the site of the former halt. There are no remains of the wooden platform to be seen today. Only the access steps down the cliff from the A493 road are left.

Notes

1. Slater, John, ed. (June 1984). "Cambrian halts decision". The Railway Magazine. 130 (998): 243.
2. Butt 1995, p. 12.

References

• Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-85260-508-1. R508.
• A. Jowett (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas. Atlantic Publishing. ISBN 0-906899-99-0.

External links

• Station on navigable O. S. map

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Gogarth Line open, station closed		Great Western Railway		Penhelig Halt Line and station open

52.55283°N 3.99683°W / 52.55283; -3.99683