Snowdon Ranger railway station

Snowdon Ranger

138 'Mileniwm'/'Millennium' arriving at Snowdon Ranger station with a southbound service from Caernarfon to Rhyd Ddu
Location
Area Gwynedd
Coordinates 53°04′25″N 4°08′36″W / 53.07375°N 4.143444°W / 53.07375; -4.143444Coordinates: 53°04′25″N 4°08′36″W / 53.07375°N 4.143444°W / 53.07375; -4.143444
Grid reference SH564551
Operations
Original company North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways
Managed by Welsh Highland Railway
Owned by Festiniog Railway Company
Platforms 1
History
1878 Opened
26 September 1936 Closed
18 August 2003 Re-opened
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K1, the first Garratt type locomotive, entering Snowdon Ranger station with a passenger train from Caernarfon to Rhyd Ddu on 19 October 2007

Snowdon Ranger is a station on the narrow gauge Welsh Highland Railway, which was built in 1878 as the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways Moel Tryfan Undertaking to carry dressed slate to Dinas Junction on the LNWR. The station was originally known as Quellyn Lake[1] but was renamed after the path to the Summit of Snowdon popularised by, and named after, the local mountain guide, "The Snowdon Ranger", who went by that name for many years. Certainly the name "Snowdon Ranger" was in common use on company timetables from as early as 1879,[2] and that of the adjacent Snowdon Ranger Hotel from at least 1869.[3]

Passenger services ceased on 26 September 1936 and the station was reopened in 2003 following the complete reconstruction of the railway from Waunfawr to Rhyd Ddu.The train services are operated by the Festiniog Railway Company's Welsh Highland Railway subsidiary. Snowdon Ranger is currently operated as an unmanned halt and trains call only by request.

Following reconstruction, the Section from Waunfawr to Rhyd Ddu was formally reopened by HRH the Prince of Wales on 30 July 2003. Prince Charles travelled by special train from Waunfawr to Snowdon Ranger station where, having donned overalls, he alighted from the carriage and travelled on the footplate to Rhyd Ddu. Public passenger services re-commenced on 18 August 2003.[4]

The former station building is now in private ownership,[1] and as such is one of the six original remaining NWNGR buildings, the others being the ruins of the former station buildings at Tryfan Junction and Bettws Garmon, the ruined quarry sidings office at nearby Glanrafon Sidings and the restored station building and goods shed at Dinas.

Notes

  1. 1 2 Alun Turner. "Welsh Highland Railway History: The Route Described". Welsh Highland Railway Ltd. Retrieved 2008-08-21.
  2. ↑ The North Wales Express, 5th December 1879
  3. ↑ Carnarvon and Denbigh Herald, 19th June 1869
  4. ↑ Ben Fisher. "Phase 3: Waunfawr to Rhyd Ddu, 2000-3 Opening Day, August 18th 2003". Retrieved 2008-08-21.

References

Preceding station   Heritage railways Following station
Plas-y-Nant   Welsh Highland Railway   Rhyd Ddu
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