Bangor and Carnarvon Railway

Bangor and Carnarvon Railway
Overview
Locale	Wales
Continues as	Chester and Holyhead Railway
Operation
Opened	20 May 1851
Technical
Line length	9 miles (14 km) (including Port Dinorwic Branch)
Track gauge	4 ft 8 ¹⁄₂ in (1,435 mm)

Bangor & Carnarvon Railway

Legend

North Wales Coast Line

to Holyhead & Bangor

Menai Bridge

Treborth

Vaynol Tunnel

Port Siding

Padarn Railway

Port Dinorwic

Griffith's Crossing

Caernarvon

Carnarvon and Llanberis Railway

to Llanberis

Carnarvonshire Railway

to Afon Wen

The Bangor and Carnarvon Railway was a railway connecting Caernarvon railway station (terminus of the Carnarvonshire Railway from Afon Wen) with Bangor in Caernarfonshire, Wales, on the Chester and Holyhead Railway (C&HR).^[1]

History

The railway was incorporated on 20 May 1851. The line opened on 1 March 1852 (for goods) included a branch to Port Dinorwic (now known as Y Felinheli). Passenger services commenced on 1 March 1852, with the C&HR leasing the line for 999 years later in 1852. This arrangement continued until the C&HR received powers to take over the line in 1854, although did not exercise these powers until 15 July 1867.^[1]

Connections to other lines

Carnarvonshire Railway at Caernarvon
Chester and Holyhead Railway at Menai Bridge
Dinorwic Railway and Padarn Railway near Y Felinheli

Later operations

For the ceremony of Investiture of the Prince of Wales in 1969, the Royal party arrived by the Royal train along the Bangor and Carnarvon Railway. They disembarked at a temporary platform put up at Griffith's Crossing, two miles north of Caernarfon.

The line closed entirely six months later on 5 January 1970. Following the Britannia Bridge fire in 1970, the Menai Bridge to Caernarvon line was temporarily reopened to handle container traffic for Holyhead. This traffic ceased and the line closed again in January 1972.

Current uses

The former Vaenol Tunnels are designated by planning consent for the growing of mushrooms. However, in December 2012, four men were jailed for conspiracy to supply cannabis, in what North Wales Police described as a sophisticated commercial scale production, under cover of the mushroom factory.^[2]

References

1 2 Awdry, 1990
↑ "Four jailed over Bangor 'mushroom' cannabis factory". BBC Wales. 3 December 2012. Retrieved 3 December 2012.

Sources

Awdry, Christopher (1990). Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies. Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0049-7. OCLC 19514063.
Butt, R. V. J. (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 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.
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 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137.

Historic Welsh railway companies

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London and North Western Railway	Anglesey Central Railway Bangor and Carnarvon Brynmawr and Blaenavon Railway Carnarvon and Llanberis Railway Carnarvonshire Railway Central Wales Railway Central Wales Extension Railway Chester and Holyhead Railway Chester & Connah's Quay Railway Conway and Llanrwst Railway Knighton Railway Llanelly Railway Red Wharf Bay Sirhowy Railway Swansea and Carmarthen Railway Central Wales and Carmarthen Junction Railway Vale of Clwyd Railway

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Independent lines	Corris, Machynlleth and River Dovey Tramroad Fairbourne Railway Ffestiniog Railway Festiniog and Blaenau Railway Glyn Valley Tramway Hay Railway Kinmel Camp Railway Mold and Denbigh Junction Railway North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways Portmadoc, Beddgelert and South Snowdon Railway Potteries, Shrewsbury & North Wales Railway Plynlimon and Hafan Tramway Pwllheli and Llanbedrog Tramway Ruthin and Cerrig-y-Drudion Railway Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Railway Snowdon Mountain Railway Swansea and Mumbles Railway Talyllyn Railway Van Railway Welsh Highland Railway

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