Dolgarrog railway station

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General information
Location	Conwy
Managed by	Transport for Wales Rail
Platforms	1
Other information
Station code	DLG

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 aluminium works closed in 2002, and is now the site of Surf Snowdonia, an inland surfing lagoon.

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

The station was closed on 2 November 1964 but was reopened on 14 June 1965.

Facilities

The station is unmanned and has a single timber platform, with basic amenities only (waiting shelter, timetable poster board and pay phone). It also has a digital CIS display like other stations on the branch. Access to the platform is via a foot crossing and path from the A470 road - as the latter is rough and unmade, the station isn't accessible for wheelchair users.

Services

Transport for Wales Rail operate 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.

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Tal-y-Cafn		Transport for Wales Rail Conwy Valley Line		North Llanrwst

Further reading

• Jones, Eric; Gwyn, David (1989). Dolgarrog, an Industrial History. Gwynedd Archives. ISBN 0-901337-50-1.
• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2010). Bala to Llandudno. West Sussex: Middleton Press. fig. 92. ISBN 9781906008871. OCLC 668198724.

External links

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