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    Manod railway station served the village of Manod which then stood on the southern edge of Blaenau Ffestiniog in Gwynedd, Wales. The 1 ft 11+1⁄2 in (597 mm)...
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    Tan-y-Manod railway station was a railway station approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Blaenau Ffestiniog, in Gwynedd (formerly Merionethshire), North...
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    from the station site in 1961". Penmorfa. "Blaenau Ffestiniog Central, Duffws (FR) & Tan-y-Manod". Britain from Above. "Manod, Tan-y-Manod, Blaenau Ffestiniog...
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    road at Tan y Manod. In 1869, this was extended by a fourth incline to connect to the Festiniog and Blaenau Railway. In 1883, the railway was replaced...
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  • Tyddyngwyn railway station was immediately north of the later Manod station in what was then Merionethshire, now Gwynedd, Wales. Tyddyngwyn was an intermediate...
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    was brought to the station by packhorse and sled from Drum quarry. One source states that some slate was brought here from Tan-y-Manod in narrow gauge days...
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  • transporter wagons between Tan-y-Manod and Blaenau Ffestiniog where the wagons were off-loaded in the large station yard and their loads of dressed slate...
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    Archived from the original on 2 March 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2016. "Manod: The Nation's Treasure Caves". nationalgallery.org. Archived from the original...
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  • Thumbnail for Bala Junction railway station
    Bala Junction railway station was on the Ruabon to Barmouth line in southern Gwynedd, Wales. It closed to passengers on Monday 18 January 1965. Bala Junction...
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    The F&BR station at Manod was Tyddyngwyn, its replacement was Manod, slightly south of the Tyddyngwyn site The F&BR station at Tan-y-Manod was closed...
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    of workforce. In 1946, the Ffestiniog Railway closed. In August 1945 the secluded farmhouse of Bwlch Ocyn at Manod, belonging to Clough Williams-Ellis,...
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    from Tan-y-manod to Blaenau (about 0.75 mile) pick-a-back on standard gauge wagons. Following nationalisation, the LMS (ex-LNWR) station was renamed...
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    Dolgellau railway station (Welsh pronunciation: [dɔlˈɡɛɬaɨ]) in Gwynedd, North Wales, was a station on the Ruabon to Barmouth line, originally the terminus...
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  • Commission on the Ancient and Historic Monuments of Wales. Sallery, Dave. "Manod / Welsh Slate's 'Cwt y Bugail Quarry': A brief history of the quarry". "MOELWYN...
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  • Thumbnail for Aber railway station (Gwynedd)
    Aber railway station was a railway station on the North Wales Coast Line in the Welsh county of Gwynedd. Although trains still pass on the main line the...
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  • list of closed railway stations in Britain includes the following: Year of closure is given if known. Stations reopened as heritage railways continue to...
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  • Junction railway station (also known as Stesion Fain railway station) was the Festiniog Railway (FR)'s third of eventually five passenger stations in Blaenau...
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  • Thumbnail for Bont Newydd railway station
    Bont Newydd railway station (sometimes shown as Bontnewydd) in Gwynedd, Wales, was a station on the now-closed Ruabon to Barmouth line. Originally a single-line...
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    Bala railway station was on the Great Western Railway's Bala Ffestiniog Line in Wales. It replaced the first Bala station which was further away from the...
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    Caernarvon railway station was a station on the former Bangor and Carnarvon Railway between Caernarfon, Gwynedd and Menai Suspension Bridge near Bangor...
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  • in 1944). Halcrow's expertise was also used in preparatory works at the Manod slate quarry in north Wales, used to keep treasures from the National Gallery...
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  • Thumbnail for Port Dinorwic railway station
    Port Dinorwic railway station was the name of two railway stations located on the Bangor and Carnarvon Railway near the village of Port Dinorwic (now Y...
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    Menai Bridge railway station was situated 2 mi (3.2 km) west of Bangor, Gwynedd in Wales. Opened on 1 October 1858 it was a replacement for the earlier...
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  • of closed railway stations in Britain includes the following: Year of closure is given if known. Some stations reopened as heritage railways continue to...
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  • in 1930 by the Great Western Railway and was known as Llangelynin Halt. It was closed by British Rail in 1991; all stations had to be lit at night on safety...
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  • Diphwys railway station was on the same site as the later Great Western Railway station in the heart of Blaenau Ffestiniog in what was then Merionethshire...
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  • Thumbnail for Pant Glas railway station
    Pant Glas was a railway station opened by the LNWR in Pant Glas, Gwynedd, Wales, serving a sparsely populated rural area. Custom was never heavy, leading...
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    (1978) Clinker’s Register of Closed Stations, Avon Anglia ISBN 0-905466-19-5 Quick, M. E. (2002). Railway passenger stations in England, Scotland and Wales...
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    Arenig railway station stood beneath Arenig Fawr on the Great Western Railway's Bala Ffestiniog Line in Gwynedd, Wales. It served this thinly populated...
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    without a second f) was the London and North Western Railway's (LNWR's) second passenger station in Blaenau Ffestiniog, then in Merionethshire, now in...
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