Disused railway lines and closed stations in Conwy

Conwy has 22 miles of disused railway and 8 closed stations, against 17 stations still open today. That is 0.5 closed for every station still served. The longest lost line is the Kinmel Camp Railway, with 3.7 miles of its route inside Conwy.

See Conwy’s lost railways on the map

The map opens on the county with the disused lines and closed stations drawn over today’s network. Tap any closed station for its history, or any grey line for its name.

What is left of it

The 22 miles of lost railway in Conwy break down as 14 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 6.2 miles with track still in place but no trains and 1.6 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left. These are OpenStreetMap’s own distinctions, made by the people who surveyed each stretch, so a line can appear under more than one state along its length.

Lost railway lines in Conwy

7 named lines with disused track in the county, longest stretch first. The mileage is the part inside Conwy; a line crossing the border is counted on both sides.

LineMiles in county
Kinmel Camp Railway3.7
Tramway1.5
Vale of Clwyd Railway0.9
Foryd Pier Branch0.6
Incline0.6
Quarry Incline0.6
Mine Incline0.4

Closed railway stations in Conwy

All 8 closed and former stations in Conwy, A to Z. Each name opens the map on the station; the Wikipedia link, where there is one, has its history.

Stations still open in Conwy

17 stations in Conwy still have a train service. The busiest are Llandudno (456,052 a year), Llandudno Junction (397,122 a year), Colwyn Bay (357,852 a year), Abergele and Pensarn (104,922 a year) and Conwy (83,682 a year). Every one has its own page, with the stations you can reach from it directly and how often the trains run: see the A to Z of stations.

Lost railways nearby

Denbighshire, Gwynedd and Isle of Anglesey.

About these figures

The disused lines are the stretches OpenStreetMap records as disused, abandoned, razed or dismantled railway, measured segment by segment and given to the county each segment lies in. The closed stations are Wikidata’s record of British railway stations no longer in service, kept where they are not within a few hundred metres of a station still open. The boundary is today’s principal area, from the Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024). Historic county lines were different, and a closed station a mile over the border is on the neighbouring page.

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