Red Wharf Bay and Benllech railway station was the terminus station of the

Red Wharf Bay branch line The Red Wharf Bay branch line was a standard gauge railway line in Anglesey, Wales, a branch off the Anglesey Central Railway. It opened fully in 1909, but closed to passengers in September 1930.Richards, Melville: An Atlas of Anglesey, page ...

, which ran between Holland Arms and

Benllech Benllech (; ) is a large village on the Isle of Anglesey in Wales. It is in the community of Llanfair-Mathafarn-Eithaf, which has a population of 3,382, making it the fourth largest settlement on the island of Anglesey. The name of Benllech v ...

, off the

Anglesey Central Railway The Anglesey Central Railway (Welsh: ''Lein Amlwch'', ''Amlwch Line'') was a standard-gauge railway in Anglesey, Wales, connecting the port of Amlwch and the county town of Llangefni with the North Wales Coast Line at Gaerwen. Built as an i ...

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The original plan had been to build the station 0.1 mile from

Red Wharf Bay Red Wharf Bay, also known as Traeth Coch (Welsh for "red beach"), is a village and a wide sandy bay in the Anglesey Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty on the east coast of the island of Anglesey in Wales. The bay lies between the villages of Pe ...

, but the final plans saw it built half a mile south of nearby Benllech.Jones, Geraint: ''Anglesey Railways'', p. 76. Carreg Gwalch, 2005 Opened in 1909, the station had a waiting room, ticket office, toilets and the longest platform on the line, at (although this was later shortened). The

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to the east of the platform contained three sidings and a loop.Jones, Geraint: ''Anglesey Railways'', p. 86. Carreg Gwalch, 2005 The approach to the station, from the south, was the site of the only

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on the line. Soon after the completion of the line a local businessman opened up a limestone quarry with the intention of transporting the produce via the new station. The station was closed in 1930 and the track taken up in 1953. Most of the buildings were demolished at around that time, although the main station building itself still exists.Jones, Geraint: ''Anglesey Railways'', page 106. Carreg Gwalch, 2005 There is now nothing existing on the site other than a few artefacts from the original demolition. The site was used as a storage facility for a number of years, but is now a wood yard.

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