Glan Conwy railway station is on the east bank of the
River Conwy
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on the
A470 road
The A470 (also named the Cardiff to Glan Conwy Trunk Road) is a trunk road in Wales. It is the country's longest road at and links the capital Cardiff on the south coast to Llandudno on the north coast. While previously one had to navigate ...
in the centre of the village of
Llansanffraid Glan Conwy
Llansanffraid Glan Conwy (), usually shortened to Glan Conwy, is a village, community and electoral ward in Conwy County Borough, Wales. The name translates from the Welsh as ''Church of St Ffraid on the bank of the River Conwy''. The village ...
, Wales and is located on the
Llandudno Junction
Llandudno Junction ( cy, Cyffordd Llandudno), once known as Tremarl, is a village in the county borough of Conwy, Wales. It is part of the ancient parish of Llangystennin, and it is located south of Llandudno. It adjoins Deganwy and is to the ...
to
Blaenau Ffestiniog Conwy Valley Line. There are through services to
Blaenau Ffestiniog.
History
The station was opened by the
Conway and Llanrwst Railway on 17 June 1863, and was originally named ''Llansaintffraid''; it was renamed ''Glan Conway'' on 1 January 1865.
Until around 1959, the station had its own Station Master. Afterwards, it was supervised by the
Tal-y-Cafn
Tal-y-Cafn ( Welsh meaning : ''"place opposite the ferry-boat"'') is a small settlement in Conwy county borough, north Wales, in the community of Eglwysbach.
It lies in the Conwy valley close to the Roman settlement of Canovium at Caerhun, a ...
station master. The staff comprised two porters working an early and late shift between them. A siding was provided which catered for coal and agricultural traffic. From 1954 to 1964 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 situated in the siding and used by holidaymakers.
The station was closed to passenger traffic on 26 October 1964,
during the
Beeching era, but reopened on 4 May 1970.
On 12 May 1980 it was renamed ''Glan Conwy''.
Facilities
The station buildings are in private occupation. The station is operated as an unstaffed halt and is a
request stop - all tickets must be purchased on the train or prior to travel. Entrance is by a ramp from the end of the lower and original platform, where there is a small shelter. The station is fitted with digital information screens for providing running information, along with a payphone and timetable poster boards.
Services
Five southbound and six northbound trains call on request Mon-Sat (approximately every three hours), with four trains each way on Sundays. As of March 2019 however, services from here were suspended due to major infrastructure damage to the track and formation caused by
Storm Gareth. Several sections of embankment have been washed out by the River Conwy and needed repaired before the line reopened. A replacement bus service was in operation in the meantime. Services resumed on 18 July as far as , with the remainder of the line reopening on 24 July. Further storm damage to the south (this time from
Storm Ciara
Storm Ciara was a powerful and long-lived extratropical cyclone that was the first of a pair of European windstorms to affect the United Kingdom and Ireland at peak intensity less than a week apart in early February 2020, followed by Storm Denn ...
) in February 2020 with services again being suspended until the line was reopened on 28 September 2020.
References
Further reading
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External links
Conwy Valley Railway
{{Conwy Valley
Llansanffraid Glan Conwy
Railway stations in Conwy County Borough
DfT Category F2 stations
Beeching closures in Wales
Railway request stops in Great Britain
Former London and North Western Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1863
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1964
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1970
Reopened railway stations in Great Britain
Railway stations served by Transport for Wales Rail