• Source: Caernarvon railway station

Caernarvon railway station was a stop on the former Bangor and Carnarvon Railway between Caernarfon in Gwynedd and the Menai Suspension Bridge near Bangor, Wales. The station was closed to all traffic in January 1972; it has since been demolished and the site redeveloped.




History


The station, which opened on 1 July 1852, was first named Carnarvon. The town was originally the terminus of the branch line from Menai Bridge, later becoming part of the Carnarvonshire Railway. In 1864, the Carnarvon and Llanberis Railway extended the branch line 8 miles (13 km) from Carnarvon station to Llanberis. A 300-yard (270 m) tunnel was constructed just south of the station to carry the new line; it was reopened in 1995 as a road tunnel.
By 1871, all three original companies were absorbed into the London and North Western Railway. The station was renamed Caernarvon on 27 March 1926. In December 1964, the lines to Afon Wen and Llanberis were closed under the Beeching Axe.
On 5 January 1970, Caernarvon was closed to all services. However, following a fire that destroyed the Britannia Bridge over the Menai Straits on 23 May 1970, the branch and goods yard were temporarily reopened for freight traffic until 30 January 1972. The branch line to Caernarvon station was finally closed with the resumption of rail services to Anglesey and Holyhead in February 1972. The track was removed and the station was completely demolished.




The site today


A Morrisons supermarket now occupies the site, having been built under the Safeway brand in the late 1980s. It was opened by the mayor of Caernarfon and was acquired by Morrisons in 2004.




Services in Caernarfon


The Welsh Highland Railway (WHR) now operates from Caernarfon railway station; it uses the original trackbed of the Carnarvonshire Railway, just south of the tunnel on St Helen's Road and beneath the high retaining walls of Segontium Terrace.
Caernarfon Council have a longer-term plan to reinstate the railway link to Bangor. After speculation that the WHR would, at some point in time, be extended to Bangor station, the owner of the WHR (the Ffestiniog Railway) wrote to the council in January 2014 to confirm that they would not themselves be supportive of such a scheme in narrow gauge, but supported the reconnection of the town to the National Rail network using standard gauge.




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Baughan, Peter E. (1988). The North Wales Coast railway : the Chester - Holyhead line, and Llandudno - Blaenau Ffestiniog (1st ed.). Halifax, West Yorks: Martin Bairstow. ISBN 0-9510-3029-9. OCLC 21328302.
Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2010). Bangor to Portmadoc: Including Three Llanberis Lines (Country Railway Routes). Midhurst: Middleton Press. ISBN 978-1-906008-72-7.
Shannon, Paul; Hillmer, John (1999). North Wales (British Railways Past & Present) Part 2. Kettering: Past & Present Publishing Ltd. ISBN 1-85895-163-1. No 36.
Turner, Alun (2003). Gwynedd's Lost Railways. Catrine, Ayrshire: Stenlake Publishing. ISBN 9781840332599.




Further reading


Clemens, Jim (2003) [1959-67]. North Wales Steam Lines No. 6 (DVD). Uffington, Shropshire: B&R Video Productions. BRVP No 79.




External links


The station site on a navigable OS Map, via National Library of Scotland
The station and line, via Rail Map Online
The line BCN with mileages, via Railway Codes
Images of Caernarfon stations, via Yahoo
The station and line, via LNWR Society Archived 19 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine
Caernarfon station, via Disused Stations
Caernarfon Town Line, via Disused Stations
By DMU from Pwllheli to Amlwch, via Huntley Archives

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