Disused railway lines and closed stations in Gwynedd

212 miles of disused railway
78 closed stations
27 stations open today
55 named lost lines

Gwynedd has 212 miles of disused railway and 78 closed stations, against 27 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 2.9 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Ruabon and Barmouth Line, with 26 miles of its route inside Gwynedd.

See Gwynedd’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 212 miles of lost railway in Gwynedd break down as 169 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 32 miles with track still in place but no trains, 9.9 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left and 1.2 miles dismantled. 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 Gwynedd

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

Line	Miles in county
Ruabon and Barmouth Line	26
Bala and Festiniog Railway	24
Caernarvonshire Line	15
Penrhyn Quarry Railway	8.3
Gorseddau Tramway	6.8
Caernarvon to Llanberis Line	6.4
Bangor and Caernarvon Branch	5.8
Corris Railway	5.3
Padarn Railway	5.2
Bangor to Bethesda Branch	4.3
Prince of Wales Quarry Tramway	4.1
Bryngwyn Branch	3.0
Dinas Mawddwy Light Railway	3.0
Incline	3.0
Hendre Ddu Tramway	2.9
Old Tramway	2.3
Mine Tramway	1.8
Alexandra Quarry Tramway	1.7
Ffestiniog Railway	1.6
Nantlle Tramway	1.6
Former Croesor Tramway	1.3
Tramway	1.3
Old Diffwys Mine Tramway	1.1
Bangor and Caernarfon Branch	1.0
Port Siding	1.0
Clogau Mine Incline	0.9
Croesor Tramway	0.9
Quarry Incline	0.9
Cilcychwyn Mine Tramway	0.8
Foel Wen Mine Tramway	0.8
Moelfryn Quarry Incline	0.7
Port Penrhyn Branch	0.7
Ratgoed Tramway	0.7
Rheilffordd Arfordir Gogledd Cymru / North Wales Coast Line	0.7
Ffridd Incline, 1st pitch	0.6
C4A Dyffryn Level	0.5
C5B Pen Garrett Level	0.5
C8T Lernion Level	0.5
Incline (disused)	0.5
Long Tip Tramway	0.5

And 15 shorter stretches: Rhosydd Tramway, Wrysgan Quarry Incline, Old Moelwyn Tunnel, Old Tramway Incline, Village Tramway, A2T Victoria Level, A4A California Level, Aberdovey Harbour Branch, C5T Australia Level, Croesor Quarry Incline, Cwm Dwyfor Mine Tramway, Talyllyn Railway, A4B Harriet Level, A6C Abbysinia Level and Aberllefenni Quarry tramway.

Closed railway stations in Gwynedd

All 78 closed and former stations in Gwynedd, 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 Gwynedd

27 stations in Gwynedd still have a train service. The busiest are Bangor (720,066 a year), Barmouth (236,854 a year), Tywyn (133,700 a year), Harlech (129,000 a year) and Porthmadog (100,700 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

Conwy, Isle of Anglesey, Denbighshire, Ceredigion and Powys.

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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