Pont-y-Pant railway station is a single platform passenger station in the Lledr Valley, Wales, on the Conwy Valley line from

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to Blaenau Ffestiniog, which is operated by

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. The station house is well maintained and used as a private dwelling.

History

The station was opened on 22 July 1879 when the London and North Western Railway opened an extension of the Conwy Valley line from to . The station was the loading point for slate from the

Rhiw-goch quarry Rhiw-goch quarry (also known as Brandreath quarry) was a slate quarry that was worked from the 1860s to 1908. It stands on the north side of the Afon Lledr, on the opposite side of the valley from Pont-y-Pant railway station. History The qua ...

on the opposite side of the valley. The slate was brought across the river by carts which crossed a substantially built bridge. The bridge is not shown on the 1888 OS Six-inch map but it is on the 1901 edition. Both maps show sidings to the north of the station on the eastern side of the line. The station was host to a LMS caravan from 1934 to 1936 followed by two caravans from 1937 to 1939. A camping coach was also positioned here by the

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in 1954.

Location

The station, which is operated as an unstaffed halt and as a request stop, is across the

River Lledr The ( en, River Lledr, italic=yes) is a river in north-west Wales and the second major tributary of the River Conwy. It is about 10 miles or 16 km long, and flows in a generally easterly direction. The has its source on the eastern slo ...

from the

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main road and the bridge is a quarter of a mile to the north of the station. There is no local village but the station serves a number of nearby isolated properties, and is also useful to walkers, owing to its proximity to a surviving section of the

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Roman road, and to the nearby village of

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Services

Five southbound and six northbound trains call on request Mondays to Saturdays (approximately every three hours), with four trains each way on Sundays. From 16 March 2019 however, the service was suspended and replaced by buses due to major flood damage in the Llanrwst area caused by Storm Gareth. The line remained closed for several months whilst repairs were carried out. Services resumed on 24 July 2019. Further storm damage to the north (this time from

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) in February 2020 once again saw services suspended, with buses replacing trains from here until the line reopened again on 28 September 2020.

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Conwy Valley Railway
{{Conwy County Borough railway stations Dolwyddelan Railway stations in Conwy County Borough DfT Category F2 stations Railway request stops in Great Britain Former London and North Western Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1879 Railway stations served by Transport for Wales Rail

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