Porthmadog railway station
Porthmadog  | |
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An Arriva Trains Wales train to Birmingham International arrives, 2009. | |
| Location | |
| Place | Porthmadog |
| Local authority | Gwynedd |
| Coordinates | 52°55′52″N 4°08′02″W / 52.931°N 4.134°WCoordinates: 52°55′52″N 4°08′02″W / 52.931°N 4.134°W |
| Grid reference | SH565391 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | PTM |
| Managed by | Arriva Trains Wales |
| Number of platforms | 2[1] |
| DfT category | F1 |
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Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries | |
| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2004/05 | 44,630 |
| 2005/06 |
 39,568 |
| 2006/07 |
 53,752 |
| 2007/08 |
58,290 |
| 2008/09 |
68,518 |
| 2009/10 |
73,976 |
| 2010/11 |
75,690 |
| 2011/12 |
80,912 |
| 2012/13 |
76,428 |
| 2013/14 |
53,040 |
| 2014/15 |
55,892 |
| History | |
| Original company | Aberystwyth and Welsh Coast Railway |
| Pre-grouping | Cambrian Railways |
| Post-grouping | Great Western Railway |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Porthmadog from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
 UK Railways portal | |
Porthmadog railway station serves the town of Porthmadog on the Llŷn Peninsula in Gwynedd, Wales. The station is on the Cambrian Coast Railway with passenger services to Pwllheli, Harlech, Barmouth, Machynlleth, Shrewsbury and Birmingham.
Disambiguation
Considering the size of the town, Porthmadog has, and has had, a number of stations, all containing either "Porthmadog", or the earlier spelling "Portmadoc" in their name.
- 1) This station, opened by the Aberystwyth and Welsh Coast Railway in 1867.
- 2) The Festiniog Railway's Porthmadog Harbour railway station, originally only a shunting yard, but from 1865, offices and station.
- 3) The Welsh Highland Railway Ltd's Porthmadog (WHHR), which although located on High Street, is also known as Tremadog Road. From the 2011 season, there is an additional platform here, accommodating the 7¼" miniature railway.[2]
Additionally there were two interim stations either side of, what is now, the Network Rail / Welsh Highland Railway Cae Pawb crossing. These were referred to as:
- 4) Portmadoc (New) (1923) to the south of the crossing.
- 5) Portmadoc (New) (1929) to the north of the crossing.
with station (2) taking the title Portmadoc Old during the period these existed.[3]
Services
Until the line between Bangor and Afonwen closed in 1964 there was a through service in the summer to and from London Euston via Crewe, Chester, Llandudno Junction and Caernarvon; the Pwllheli portion was detached at Afonwen and the forward coaches proceeded to Portmadoc (the spellings are those used at the time). There was also a summer service between London Paddington and Pwllheli, via Birmingham Snow Hill, Shrewsbury and Machynlleth.
Nowadays trains call at Porthmadog roughly once every two hours Monday - Saturday, with a solitary train stopping in each direction on Sundays during the winter and two additional services each way in the summer (May - mid-September). During the daytime, trains run through to/from Shrewsbury and Birmingham International (joining or splitting from a portion to/from Aberystwyth), but in the evening they start/terminate at Machynlleth.[4]
From November 2013 until September 2014, main line services were suspended due to structural problems with the Pont Briwet viaduct near Llandecwyn.[5] Network Rail and Gwynedd County Council were carrying out work to build a £20 million replacement for the current bridge a few metres downstream, but in doing so had caused the old one to sink and thus made it unsafe for both rail & road traffic. A replacement bus service operated during the railway's closure.
| Preceding station | National Rail |
Following station | ||
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| Arriva Trains Wales | ||||
| Historical railways | ||||
| Minffordd Line and station open |
Aberystwyth and Welsh Coast Railway Cambrian Railways |
Black Rock Halt Line open, station closed | ||
 Heritage railways |
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| Connection with Porthmadog (WHHR) on the Welsh Highland Heritage Railway | ||||
| Connection with Porthmadog Harbour on the Ffestiniog Railway and Welsh Highland Railway | ||||
References
- ↑ Mitchell & Smith 2010, Photos 86-91 & Map XXIII.
- ↑ Miniature Railway terminus
- ↑ Boyd, James I.C. (1975) [1959]. The Festiniog Railway 1800 - 1974; Vol. 1 - History and Route. Blandford: The Oakwood Press. ISBN 0-8536-1167-X. OCLC 2074549.
- ↑ Table 76 National Rail timetable, May 2016
- ↑ Bridge fiasco could close Porthmadog line until 2015 Milner, Chris Railway Magazine 1-01-2014; Retrieved 2013-01-17
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Sources
- 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.
- Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2010). Bangor to Portmadoc: Including Three Llanberis Lines (Country Railway Routes). Midhurst: Middleton Press. ISBN 978 1 906008 72 7.
External links
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- Train times and station information for Porthmadog railway station from National Rail