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Glyndyfrdwy railway station (, ''Glin-duvver-doo-ee'') is a former station on the Ruabon to Barmouth line. The stop, which is near the village of Glyndyfrdwy in

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, is now a preserved railway station on the Llangollen Railway. It was reopened by the

heritage railway A heritage railway or heritage railroad (US usage) is a railway operated as living history to re-create or preserve railway scenes of the past. Heritage railways are often old railway lines preserved in a state depicting a period (or periods) i ...

in 1993.

History

The station was originally opened in May 1865 by the Llangollen to Corwen railway company. The route was constructed by

Thomas Brassey Thomas Brassey (7 November 18058 December 1870) was an English civil engineering contractor and manufacturer of building materials who was responsible for building much of the world's railways in the 19th century. By 1847, he had built about o ...

under the direction of the prolific Scottish engineer,

Henry Robertson Henry Robertson (11 June 1816 – 22 March 1888) was a Scottish mining engineer and prolific railway builder, industrialist and Liberal Party politician. He was head of Brymbo Steelworks, Wrexham. He was co-founder of Beyer-Peacock, with Charl ...

. Glyndyfrdwy was the third stop for westbound trains after . 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 ...

classes of traffic G, P & H were being handled at this station in 1956: and there was a 3-ton 10 cwt (3.6 tonne) crane.1956, ''

'', British Transport Commission It remained open for almost a hundred years, and it was due to be closed to passengers on Monday 18 January 1965. However, it was closed prematurely due to flood damage on 14 December 1964.

Preservation

It was reopened by the Llangollen Railway in 1993. The station has two

side platform A side platform (also known as a marginal platform or a single-face platform) is a platform positioned to the side of one or more railway tracks or guideways at a railway station, tram stop, or transitway. A station having dual side platforms ...

s alongside two tracks that provide a passing place on the single line. The restored non-operational signal box at the west end of the station is a listed structure from Barmouth South.

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Glyndyfrdwy station on navigable 1946 O.S. map
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 Llangollen Railway Former Great Western Railway stations Corwen {{Wales-railstation-stub

History

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