Dinas (FR) railway station

Dinas (FR)
Location
Place Blaenau Ffestiniog
Area Gwynedd
Coordinates 52°59′57″N 3°56′51″W / 52.9991°N 3.9476°W / 52.9991; -3.9476Coordinates: 52°59′57″N 3°56′51″W / 52.9991°N 3.9476°W / 52.9991; -3.9476
Grid reference SH 693 434
Operations
Original company Festiniog Railway
Platforms 1[1]
History
6 January 1865 Opened
August 1870 Closed[2][3][4]
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Dinas station was built by the Festiniog Railway (FR). It was the first passenger station in Blaenau Ffestiniog, then in Merionethshire, now in Gwynedd,Wales. This station is not to be confused with Dinas some miles distant on the Welsh Highland Railway; nor is it to be confused with the Festiniog and Blaenau Railway's northern terminus in the centre of Blaenau Ffestiniog which was sometimes referred to coloquially as "Dinas".[5]

Context

The complex and confusing evolution of Blaenau's passenger stations is expanded here.

Opening

The station opened on 6 January 1865, carrying passengers to Portmadoc and points between. This was the first steam-hauled passenger service in Britain to use tracks of less than Standard Gauge, with the line carrying a quarter of a million people in its first year of operation.[6]

Location

The station was built among existing slate workings which had been rail-served for some years.[7]

Closure

The following year the FR opened Dinas Junction,[8] from which its "Branch Line" (the original line to Dinas being the "Main Line") to the new Duffws (FR) station nearer to the centre of the town.[9] Trains from Portmadoc alternated between the two stations,[10] but Duffws was better sited for passenger traffic,[6] so Dinas closed in 1870. Slate traffic to the Dinas station area nevertheless continued well into the 20th Century.[11]

Modern times

The station was eventually covered by slate waste, under which it is now completely buried.[12]

Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Terminus   Festiniog Railway
Narrow gauge
  Tanygrisiau
Line closed, station open

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