Llwyngwern railway station

Llwyngwern was a station on the Corris Railway in Wales, built to serve the hamlet of Pantperthog and the residents of Plas Llwyngwern, where a daughter of the 5th Marquess of Londonderry lived with her husband. Although the Plas was in Montgomeryshire, the station was across the Afon Dulas in Merionethshire. The station was built at Llwyngwern, rather than at Pantperthog, because there is a very tight bend and a steep gradient on the railway at Pantperthog. The station was sited at the junction between the main line of the Corris Railway and the horse-worked branch to the former Llwyngwern slate quarry, which is now the home of the Centre for Alternative Technology.

Part of the station building survives as a bus shelter.

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Eco Dyfi Valley Partnership

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Ffridd Gate		Corris Railway		Esgairgeiliog

Corris Railway

Locomotives	№ 3 № 4

Locations	Morben Derwenlas Machynlleth Ffridd Gate Llwyngwern Esgairgeiliog Maespoeth Junction Corris Corris Uchaf Garneddwen Aberllefenni

Quarries and mines	Abercorris Aberllefenni Braichgoch Ratgoed

People	George Vane-Tempest, 5th Marquess of Londonderry Clifton Robinson George White Edward Temperley Gourley Sydney Ernest Smith Walter Rathbone Bacon

Miscellaneous	Corris Railway Grand Tour Bristol Omnibus Company Imperial Tramways Company

Coordinates: 52°37′23″N 3°50′45″W / 52.6230°N 3.8457°W / 52.6230; -3.8457

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