Carrog railway station in
Denbighshire
Denbighshire ( ; cy, Sir Ddinbych; ) is a county in the north-east of Wales. Its borders differ from the historic county of the same name. This part of Wales contains the country's oldest known evidence of habitation – Pontnewydd (Bontnewy ...
,
Wales
Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the Bristol Channel to the south. It had a population in ...
, was formerly a station on the
Ruabon to Barmouth line
Ruabon ( cy, Rhiwabon ) is a village and Community (Wales), community in Wrexham County Borough, Wales. The name comes from ''Rhiw Fabon'', ''rhiw'' being the Welsh word for "slope" or "hillside" and ''Fabon'' being a mutation from Mabyn, St M ...
. A
camping coach
Camping coaches were holiday accommodation offered by many railway companies in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland from the 1930s. The coaches were old passenger vehicles no longer suitable for use in trains, which were converted to ...
was positioned here by the
Western Region from 1956 to 1962. It was to have closed to passengers on Monday 18 January 1965 but closed prematurely on 14 December 1964 due to flood damage. It was reopened in 1996 as part of 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 ...
. It is a passing place on the single line and has a signal box.
According to the
Official Handbook of Stations
The ''Official Handbook of Stations'' was a large book (, 494 pages) listing all the passenger and goods stations, as well as private sidings, on the railways of Great Britain and Ireland. It was published in 1956 by the British Transport Commiss ...
the following classes of traffic were being handled at this station in 1956: G, P, F, L, H, C but there was no crane.
It is again an intermediate station on the preserved line with the completion of the extension to , in October 2014. However, due to engineering works relating to the reopening of , Carrog is once again the terminus of the line until 1 October 2019.
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External links
Friends of Carrog station website
Beeching closures in Wales
Heritage railway stations in Denbighshire
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1865
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1964
Former Great Western Railway stations
Llangollen Railway
Corwen
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