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Conwy Conwy (, ), previously known in English as Conway, is a walled town, walled market town, community (Wales), community and the administrative centre of Conwy County Borough in North Wales. The walled town and castle stand on the west bank of the ...

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London and North Western Railway The London and North Western Railway (LNWR, L&NWR) was a British railway company between 1846 and 1922. In the late 19th century, the L&NWR was the largest joint stock company in the United Kingdom. In 1923, it became a constituent of the Lo ...

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Roman Bridge railway station ( cy, Pont Rufeinig) is a

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passenger station in the Lledr Valley,

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, on the Conwy Valley Line from

Llandudno Junction Llandudno Junction ( cy, Cyffordd Llandudno), once known as Tremarl, is a village in the county borough of Conwy, Wales. It is part of the ancient parish of Llangystennin, and it is located south of Llandudno. It adjoins Deganwy and is to the ...

Blaenau Ffestiniog Blaenau Ffestiniog is a town in Gwynedd, Wales. Once a slate mining centre in historic Merionethshire, it now relies much on tourists, drawn for instance to the Ffestiniog Railway and Llechwedd Slate Caverns. It reached a population of 12,000 ...

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. It is sited north of Blaenau Ffestiniog and is the last station in the Lledr valley before the long Ffestiniog tunnel is reached. The station is unmanned and does not serve a village. It is named after a nearby ancient bridge over the River Lledr, that carries a minor highway from the

A470 road The A470 (also named the Cardiff to Glan Conwy Trunk Road) is a trunk road in Wales. It is the country's longest road at and links the capital Cardiff on the south coast to Llandudno on the north coast. While previously one had to navigate t ...

to scattered hill farms at Blaenau Dolwyddelan.

History

The station was opened on 22 July 1879 when the

opened an extension of the Conwy Valley line from to . Early Baedeker guide books to Great Britain state that there is no explanation for the name, though the Roman road

Sarn Helen Sarn Helen refers to several stretches of Roman road in Wales. The route, which follows a meandering course through central Wales, connects Aberconwy in the north with Carmarthen in the west. Despite its length, academic debate continues as ...

is known to have passed down the valley on its way from

Canovium Canovium was a fort in the Roman province of Britannia. Its site is located at Caerhun in the Conwy valley, in the county borough of Conwy, in North Wales. Etymology The fort appears in the Antonine Itinerary as ''Conovio'' and in the Ravenna ...

(in the

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Tomen y Mur Tomen y Mur is a First Century AD Roman fort in Snowdonia, Gwynedd, Wales. The fortification, which lies on the slope of an isolated spur northeast of Llyn Trawsfynydd, was constructed during the North Wales campaigns of governor Gnaeus Julius A ...

, at

Trawsfynydd Trawsfynydd (; Welsh for "across hemountain") is a linear village in Gwynedd, Wales, near Llyn Trawsfynydd reservoir, and adjacent to the A470 north of Bronaber and Dolgellau and 10 km (6 miles) south of Blaenau Ffestiniog. The total comm ...

making a crossing at this point feasible. The station was host to two LMS caravans from 1935 to 1939. A camping coach was also positioned here by the

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from 1954 to 1956. The station building still stands and is well maintained as a residence - it was offered for sale in 2013 for £450,000 as a private home (with 10 acres of land), after previous use as a holiday cottage.

Facilities

The unstaffed station has digital CIS screens. There is a waiting shelter, pay phone and timetable poster board for train running information provision.Roman Bridge station facilities
''National Rail Enquiries''

Services

Five southbound and six northbound trains call on request Mondays to Saturdays (approximately every three hours), with three trains each way on Sundays between May and early September. Services were temporarily suspended in February 2020 and replaced by road transport due to flooding of the line north of Llanrwst caused by

Storm Ciara Storm Ciara was a powerful and long-lived extratropical cyclone that was the first of a pair of European windstorms to affect the United Kingdom and Ireland at peak intensity less than a week apart in early February 2020, followed by Storm Denn ...

. Following completion of the work to repair the storm damage, services at the station were reinstated on 28 September 2020.

References

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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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