Chwilog railway station

Chwilog railway station served the village of Chwilog, Gwynedd, Wales. It was opened in 1867 by the Carnarvonshire Railway, who were subsequently taken over by the LNWR, passing to the LMSR at the Grouping of 1923. The station came under the London Midland Region of British Railways from nationalisation in 1948.

Chwilog
Site of the former station in 1986
General information
Location	Chwilog, Gwynedd Wales
Coordinates	52.92027°N 4.33050°W / 52.92027; -4.33050
Grid reference	SH 433 384
Platforms	1[1][2]
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway Western Region of British Railways
Key dates
2 September 1867[3]	Line and station opened
7 December 1964	Line and station closed[4][5][6]

v t e Carnarvonshire Railway
Legend
Bangor and Carnarvon Railway to Bangor Caernarvon Carnarvon and Llanberis Railway Caernarfon (WHR) Quay sidings Caernarvon (Morfa) Carnarvon (Pant) Pont Rug Halt Pontrhythallt Bontnewydd (WHR) Cwm-y-Glo Llanberis Tunnel Glynrhonwy Quarries Padarn Halt Llanberis Dinas Junction Welsh Highland Railway Llanwnda Groeslon Penygroes Nantlle Branch Junction Nantlle summit Pant Glas Brynkir Ynys Llangybi Chwilog Aberystwith & Welsh Coast Rly to Pwllheli Afon Wen Aberystwith & Welsh Coast Rly to Porthmadog

A year after the station opened £100 was spent improving its passenger accommodation.^[7]

Apart from goods and passenger services normal for a country station, a strong milk traffic was developed, culminating in a train of five vans of churns being sent to Liverpool daily from 1943 to 1949. The siding at Chwilog could only accommodate five vans, so the opportunity to expand the business was lost to road traffic in winter 1949–50.^[8]

The line and station closed in December 1964.

In 2015 the station area was covered by a bus station, but the platform was still in place behind a new housing estate and the station master's house was in use as a private residence.

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Llangybi Line and Station closed		London and North Western Railway Carnarvonshire Railway		Afon Wen Line closed; Station closed

References

1. Mitchell & Smith 2010, Photos 73-5 & Map XX.
2. Rear 2012, pp. 31–33.
3. Quick 2009, p. 71.
4. Butt 1995, p. 61.
5. "The station". Disused Stations.
6. Turner 2003, pp. 7 & 12.
7. Dunn 1958, p. 595.
8. Rear 2012, p. 31.

Sources

• Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
• Dunn, J.M. (September 1958). Cooke, B.W.C. (ed.). "The Afonwen Line-1". The Railway Magazine. 104 (689). London: Tothill Press Limited. ISSN 0033-8923.
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2010). Bangor to Portmadoc: Including Three Llanberis Lines. Country Railway Routes. Midhurst: Middleton Press. ISBN 978-1-906008-72-7.
• Quick, Michael (2009) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (4th ed.). Oxford: Railway & Canal Historical Society. ISBN 978-0-901461-57-5. OCLC 612226077.
• Rear, W.G. (2012). Caernarvon & the Lines from Afonwen & Llanberis: 28: Scenes from the Past Railways of North Wales. Nottingham: Book Law Publications. ISBN 978-1-907094-78-1.
• Turner, Alun (2003). Gwynedd's Lost Railways. Catrine, Ayrshire: Stenlake Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84033-259-9.

Further material

• Clemens, Jim (2003) [1959-67]. North Wales Steam Lines No. 6 (DVD). Uffington, Shropshire: B&R Video Productions. BRVP No 79.

External links

• "The station site on a navigable OS Map". National Library of Scotland.
• "The station and line". Rail Map Online.
• "The line CNV with mileages". Railway Codes.
• "Images of the station". Yahoo.
• "The station and line". LNWR Society. Archived from the original on 19 August 2016. Retrieved 29 July 2016.
• "By DMU from Pwllheli to Amlwch". Huntley Archives. Archived from the original on 17 December 2021.