Black Rock Halt was a railway station in

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, located between

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and

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on the former

Aberystwith and Welsh Coast Railway The Aberystwith and Welsh Coast Railway was a standard gauge railway company, running a line along the west coast of Wales. The railway was planned to run between Anglicised place name spellings were used during most of the history of the line ...

. It served the popular beach at Black Rock Sands beyond the headland it is named after.

History

The halt, which could be accessed by a path from the foot of the Black Rock ( cy, Graig Ddu), consisted of a wooden platform and was opened on 9 July 1923 by the

Great Western Railway The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament on 31 August 1835 and ran ...

, which saw itself as the 'holiday line'. It closed on safety grounds in August 1976, but was not officially closed until 27 June 1977. No trace of the wooden platform now remains.

The site today

Trains on the

Cambrian Line The Cambrian Line ( cy, Llinell y Cambrian), also known as the Cambrian Main Line ( cy, Prif Linell y Cambrian) and Cambrian Coast Line ( cy, Llinell Arfordir y Cambrian), is a railway line that runs from Shrewsbury, England, westwards to Aber ...

pass the site of the former station, which is just about discernible on modern aerial photography.The halt on a navigable OS map, overlaon onto satellite images, via ''National Library of Scotland''
/ref> The site of the halt can be seen from the

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* * * * Disused railway stations in Gwynedd Criccieth Former Great Western Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1923 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1976 1923 establishments in Wales {{Wales-railstation-stub