Llanbedr railway station serves the village of

Llanbedr Llanbedr () is a village and community south of Harlech. Administratively, it lies in the Ardudwy area, formerly Meirionnydd, of the county of Gwynedd, Wales. History Ancient monuments at Llanbedr include Neolithic standing stones; the St ...

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. Until 8 May 1978, it was known as Talwrn Bach. The station is an unstaffed halt on the Cambrian Coast Railway with passenger services to

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and

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. This station is close to the popular camping resort of Shell Island. Trains call only on request. From 22 June 2020, trains did not call at the station due to the short platform and the inability to maintain social distancing between passengers and the guard when opening the train door. This meant that, in the

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's statistics, it became one of Britain's least used stations, recording 0 passengers in the year 2020–21. However, the station has since reopened according to Transport for Wales, the train operator which provides services to and from the station.

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Railway stations in Gwynedd DfT Category F2 stations Former Great Western Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1923 Railway stations served by Transport for Wales Rail Railway request stops in Great Britain Llanbedr {{Wales-railstation-stub