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Barmouth Barmouth ( cy, Abermaw (formal); ''Y Bermo'' (colloquial)) is a seaside town and community (Wales), community in the county of Gwynedd, northwestern Wales, lying on the estuary of the Afon Mawddach and Cardigan Bay. Located in the Historic coun ...

Gwynedd Gwynedd (; ) is a county and preserved county (latter with differing boundaries; includes the Isle of Anglesey) in the north-west of Wales. It shares borders with Powys, Conwy County Borough, Denbighshire, Anglesey over the Menai Strait, and C ...

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Barmouth railway station serves the seaside town of

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. The station is on the Cambrian Coast Railway with passenger services to

Harlech Harlech () is a seaside resort and community in Gwynedd, north Wales and formerly in the historic county of Merionethshire. It lies on Tremadog Bay in the Snowdonia National Park. Before 1966, it belonged to the Meirionydd District of the 197 ...

Porthmadog Porthmadog (; ), originally Portmadoc until 1974 and locally as "Port", is a Welsh coastal town and community in the Eifionydd area of Gwynedd and the historic county of Caernarfonshire. It lies east of Criccieth, south-west of Blaenau Ffest ...

Pwllheli Pwllheli () is a market town and community of the Llŷn Peninsula ( cy, Penrhyn Llŷn) in Gwynedd, north-western Wales. It had a population of 4,076 in 2011 of whom a large proportion, 81%, are Welsh language, Welsh speaking. Pwllheli is the pl ...

Tywyn Tywyn (Welsh: ; in English often ), formerly spelled Towyn, is a town, community, and seaside resort on the Cardigan Bay coast of southern Gwynedd, Wales. It was previously in the historic county of Merionethshire. It is famous as the loc ...

, Aberdovey,

Machynlleth Machynlleth () is a market town, community and electoral ward in Powys, Wales and within the historic boundaries of Montgomeryshire. It is in the Dyfi Valley at the intersection of the A487 and the A489 roads. At the 2001 Census it had a popul ...

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. Between Morfa Mawddach and

the railway crosses the

Afon Mawddach The Afon Mawddach ( en, River Mawddach, italic=yes) is a river in Gwynedd, Wales, which has its source in a wide area north of Dduallt in Snowdonia. It is 28 miles (45 km) in length, and is much branched; many of the significant tribut ...

on the

Barmouth Bridge Barmouth Bridge ( Welsh: ''Pont Abermaw''), or Barmouth Viaduct is a Grade II* listed single-track wooden railway viaduct across the estuary of the Afon Mawddach near Barmouth, Wales. It is long and carries the Cambrian Line. It is the longes ...

History

The station (opened in 1867) originally extended further south, with a platform for trains to Dolgellau and Ruabon on the south side of the level crossing. This platform became disused following the closure of the Dolgellau line in 1965, but remained in situ with its waiting room until the early 1990s. It was demolished to make way for a bus stop and car park. The goods yard was redeveloped around the same time by

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and, as at Tywyn and Pwllheli, is now occupied by a supermarket. Until the 1960s there was a summer service between London Paddington and Pwllheli, via Birmingham Snow Hill, Shrewsbury and Machynlleth. The station

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, also on the south side of the level crossing, became disused in the 1980s as the Cambrian Line's traditional

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system was replaced with radio signalling (

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). After lying derelict for several years, it was moved to on the preserved

Llangollen Railway The Llangollen Railway () is a volunteer-run heritage railway in Denbighshire, North Wales, which operates between Llangollen and Corwen. The standard gauge line, which is long, runs on part of the former Ruabon – Barmouth GWR route that c ...

Facilities

The southbound platform was improved in 2003 and is now home to Barmouth's tourist information centre. The station has a staffed ticket office and the tourist information centre provides a travel information service. The building also houses a small museum devoted to the history of Barmouth. There are no toilets within the station building.

Services

Trains operate every two hours in each direction, southbound to , & and northbound to (a limited number also originate or terminate here). On Sundays, there is a single service each way all year, with extra trains in the summer. All services at Barmouth are provided by Transport for Wales using its Class 158

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. From 3 January 2014, train services were suspended due to major infrastructure damage at several locations along the line caused by storm-force winds and the resultant

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. Part of the sea wall to the north near was swept away, leading to severe damage to the formation which closed the line for 5 months, whilst further south a section of embankment at Tonfannau was washed out.

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restored service to Barmouth from the south on 10 February 2014, and the line as far north as Harlech in May the same year."Section of Cambrian Coast line damaged by ferocious storms to reopen in May ahead of schedule"
'Wales Online'' article 21 March 2014; Retrieved 12 October 2016 The northern end of the route beyond remained closed until 1 September 2014 due to the reconstruction of the

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viaduct.

Gallery

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158823 departs for . File:Barmouth railway station 1863285 37db31d2.jpg, Barmouth Station in 1962 File:Barmouth 2 railway station 2171647 c9dc9203.jpg, A double-headed return holiday express in 1962 File:Barmouth station geograph-2523573-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg, Train from Chester in 1962

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