Gogarth railway station

Not to be confused with Gogar railway station.
Gogarth
Location
Place Eglwys Fach
Area Merionethshire
Operations
Original company Great Western Railway
Post-grouping Great Western Railway
Platforms 1
History
9 June 1923 Station opens as Gogarth Halt
6 May 1968 Station renamed Gogarth
14 May 1984 Last Train
30 September 1985 Station closes (officially)
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Gogarth railway station served a sparsely populated area on the north shore of the Dyfi estuary in the Welsh county of Merionethshire.

History

Opened by the Great Western Railway on 9 July 1923 and originally named Gogarth Halt, it had a short wooden platform with no shelter. The station passed on to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. Renamed Gogarth on 6 May 1968, it was officially closed by the British Railways Board on 30 September 1985, the last train having stopped on 14 May 1984.[1]

The site today

Trains on the Cambrian Line pass the site of the former halt but there is no trace of its existence.

Notes

  1. Butt 1995, p. 106.

References

External links

Preceding station Historical railways Following station
Dovey Junction
Line and station open
  Great Western Railway   Abertafol Halt
Line open, station closed

Coordinates: 52°33′39″N 3°57′40″W / 52.5608°N 3.9610°W / 52.5608; -3.9610


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