Index
- Menai Bridge to Afon Wen Home
- Menai Bridge
- Treborth
- Port Dinorwic 1st
- Port Dinprwic 2nd
- Griffiths Crossing
- Carnarvon
- Caernarvon Pant
- Dinas
- Llanwnda
- Groeslon
- Pen-y-Groes
- Pant Glas
- Brynkir
- Ynys
- Llangybi
- Chwilog
- Afon Wen
Afon Wen
(1867 - 1964)
Afon Wen station was located on the line to Menai Bridge opening in September 1867
By December 1895, Afon Wen had eight up and 13 down departures on Monday to Saturday and two extra workings on Mondays. On Sundays there was one train to Bangor via Menai Bridge
In summer 1904, there were eight passenger arrivals and eight departures. There were also three goods services
By the 1930s, Wales had become a popular holiday destination, and during the summer months there were over one hundred train movements each day at Afon Wen because there as a Butlins Holiday Camp built at nearby Pwllheli
During the winter months, the line was much quieter, but even so Afon Wen still had ten up and 21 down trains in the winter of 1958/59 on Monday to Friday
Afon Wen remained busy in the summer months into the 1960s but in the Reshaping of British Railways (The ‘Beeching’ Report) of 1963 closure of the line between Afon Wen and Menai Bridge was proposed although Afon Wen was to remain open. However, the line, including Afon Wen, closed to all traffic on Monday December 7 1964
The only surviving station building is the station master’s house, which is in use as a private dwelling. None of the platform buildings have survived and the ‘down’ platform no longer exists. The single-track Cambrian line is still open and passes through the site
By December 1895, Afon Wen had eight up and 13 down departures on Monday to Saturday and two extra workings on Mondays. On Sundays there was one train to Bangor via Menai Bridge
In summer 1904, there were eight passenger arrivals and eight departures. There were also three goods services
By the 1930s, Wales had become a popular holiday destination, and during the summer months there were over one hundred train movements each day at Afon Wen because there as a Butlins Holiday Camp built at nearby Pwllheli
During the winter months, the line was much quieter, but even so Afon Wen still had ten up and 21 down trains in the winter of 1958/59 on Monday to Friday
Afon Wen remained busy in the summer months into the 1960s but in the Reshaping of British Railways (The ‘Beeching’ Report) of 1963 closure of the line between Afon Wen and Menai Bridge was proposed although Afon Wen was to remain open. However, the line, including Afon Wen, closed to all traffic on Monday December 7 1964
The only surviving station building is the station master’s house, which is in use as a private dwelling. None of the platform buildings have survived and the ‘down’ platform no longer exists. The single-track Cambrian line is still open and passes through the site
