Fairbourne railway station serves the village of

Fairbourne Fairbourne is a seaside village in Gwynedd, Wales. Located on the coast of Barmouth Bay in Arthog community, to the south of the estuary of the River Mawddach, it is surrounded by Snowdonia National Park. It is in an area that had been listed ...

in Gwynedd, Wales. It is an unstaffed station on the Cambrian Coast Railway with passenger services to

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

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 19 ...

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 Ff ...

, Pwllheli,

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 lo ...

, 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 pop ...

and Shrewsbury. Fairbourne-Station

The 12¼ inch gauge

Fairbourne Railway The Fairbourne Railway (Welsh: Rheilffordd y Friog) is a gauge miniature railway running for from the village of Fairbourne on the Mid-Wales coast, alongside the beach to the end of a peninsula at Barmouth Ferry railway station, where there ...

has a separate station nearby from which narrow gauge trains run the 2 miles from Fairbourne to Barmouth Ferry ( Penrhyn Point).

History

The station first opened on 3 July 1865 and closed on 3 June 1867, during which time it was named ''Barmouth Ferry''. It reopened as ''Fairbourne'' on 6 June 1899.

Services

There is a two-hourly service between Pwllheli and Machynlleth, with certain services continuing to Birmingham International. There are 5 trains per day between Pwllheli and Machynlleth on Sundays.

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* Railway stations in Gwynedd DfT Category F2 stations Former Cambrian Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1865 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1867 Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1899 Railway stations served by Transport for Wales Rail Arthog {{Wales-railstation-stub