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Llangelynin station was a single-platform halt on the
Cambrian Line The Cambrian Line ( cy, Llinell y Cambrian), also known as the Cambrian Main Line ( cy, Prif Linell y Cambrian) and Cambrian Coast Line ( cy, Llinell Arfordir y Cambrian), is a railway line that runs from Shrewsbury, England, westwards to Aber ...
, which served the small village of
Llangelynin Llangelynnin (; also Llangelynin) is a small village and community near Tywyn, Gwynedd, Wales. Although the village is usually known as ''Llangelynnin'' in English, the community name used is ''Llangelynin''. St Celynnin's Church The parish c ...
in
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 ...
, Wales. It was opened in 1930 by the
Great Western Railway The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament on 31 August 1835 and ran ...
and was known as ''Llangelynin Halt''. It was closed by
British Rail British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most of the overground rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. It was formed from the nationalisation of the Big Four British rai ...
in 1991; all stations had to be lit at night on safety grounds and it was deemed not worth the upgrade. Train services were officially "suspend d... until further notice" with effect from 18 November 1991; the "unsafe condition of the platform" was given as the reason. The line is still open, but trains no longer call at the station.


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Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1930 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1991 Disused railway stations in Gwynedd Llangelynin, Gwynedd Former Great Western Railway stations {{Wales-railstation-stub