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
Penygroes formerly Pen-y-Groes
(1867 - 1964)
The station opened as Pen-y-Groes on September 1867 as part of the Menai Bridge to Afon Wen railway
The track was single with two platforms but there was a passing loop. The station building was two-storey brick-built and consisted of waiting rooms for both sexes, a booking hall, porters’ office, lamp room, a weigh office, toilets for both sexes and accommodation for the stationmaster. On the ‘up’ platform a stone waiting shelter with slate roof was provided. There were goods sidings west side of the line, south of the station
By December 1895, Pen-y-groes had six up and eleven down trains Monday to Friday. Extra trains ran on Saturdays and there was a train in each direction on Sundays
In 1904, the LNWR changed the spelling of Pen-y-Groes to Penygroes
In summer 1932, there were ten up and nine down departures but no Sunday service
At many of the stations, including Penygroes, platforms were lengthened when the Butlin's Holiday Camp opened. The summer timetable for 1955 showed ten up and eleven down trains Monday to Friday. On Saturdays there were sixteen up and seventeen down services but no service on Sundays
The ‘Beeching’ report of 1963 recommended that the line between Caernarfon and Afon Wen be closed completely. This was despite the very heavy holiday traffic in the summer but the line closed on December 7 1964
The station building remained in use as a residence for a period but had become derelict by the 1970s and was demolished by 1975, but the platforms survived. In 1975 a haulage road was constructed through the site of Penygroes by MacAlpines December 7 1964
In 2000, the Penygroes road bypass was constructed along the trackbed through the site of Penygroes station leaving no trace of it
The track was single with two platforms but there was a passing loop. The station building was two-storey brick-built and consisted of waiting rooms for both sexes, a booking hall, porters’ office, lamp room, a weigh office, toilets for both sexes and accommodation for the stationmaster. On the ‘up’ platform a stone waiting shelter with slate roof was provided. There were goods sidings west side of the line, south of the station
By December 1895, Pen-y-groes had six up and eleven down trains Monday to Friday. Extra trains ran on Saturdays and there was a train in each direction on Sundays
In 1904, the LNWR changed the spelling of Pen-y-Groes to Penygroes
In summer 1932, there were ten up and nine down departures but no Sunday service
At many of the stations, including Penygroes, platforms were lengthened when the Butlin's Holiday Camp opened. The summer timetable for 1955 showed ten up and eleven down trains Monday to Friday. On Saturdays there were sixteen up and seventeen down services but no service on Sundays
The ‘Beeching’ report of 1963 recommended that the line between Caernarfon and Afon Wen be closed completely. This was despite the very heavy holiday traffic in the summer but the line closed on December 7 1964
The station building remained in use as a residence for a period but had become derelict by the 1970s and was demolished by 1975, but the platforms survived. In 1975 a haulage road was constructed through the site of Penygroes by MacAlpines December 7 1964
In 2000, the Penygroes road bypass was constructed along the trackbed through the site of Penygroes station leaving no trace of it
