Snowdon Ranger railway station

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Snowdon Ranger

138 'Mileniwm'/'Millennium' arriving at Snowdon Ranger station with a southbound service from Caernarfon to Rhyd Ddu.]]

Location

Place

Local authority

Gwynedd

Coordinates

53°04′26″N 4°08′36″W / 53.07375, -4.143444Coordinates: 53°04′26″N 4°08′36″W / 53.07375, -4.143444

Operations

Managed by

Ffestiniog Railway

Owned by

Ffestiniog Railway

Platforms in use

History

1878

Opened

26 September 1936

Closed

18 August 2003

Re-opened

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K1, the first Garratt type locomotive entering Snowdon Ranger station with a passenger train from Caernarfon to Rhyd Ddu on 19 October 2007

Snowdon Ranger is a station on the narrow gauge Welsh Highland Railway, which was built in 1878 as the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways Moel Tryfan Undertaking to carry dressed slate to Dinas Junction on the LNWR. The station was named after the path to the Summit of Snowdon popularised by, and named after, the local mountain guide, "The Snowdon Ranger", who went by that name for many years. Passenger services ceased on 26 September 1936 and the station was reopened in 2003 following the complete reconstruction of the railway from Waunfawr to Rhyd Ddu. The train services are operated by the Ffestiniog Railway Company. Snowdon Ranger is currently operated as an unmanned halt and trains call only by request.

Following reconstruction, the Section from Waunfawr to Rhyd Ddu was formally reopened by HRH the Prince of Wales on 30 July 2003. Prince Charles travelled by special train from Waunfawr to Snowdon Ranger station where, having donned overalls, he alighted from the carriage and travelled on the footplate to Rhyd Ddu. Public passenger services re-commenced on 18 August 2003.

The former station building is now in private ownership, and as such, is one of the four original remaining NWNGR buildings, one at Tryfan Junction, the other two being in Dinas.

[edit] References

Boyd, James I.C. [1972] (1988). Narrow Gauge Railways in South Caernarvonshire - Volume 1. Headington, Oxford: The Oakwood Press. ISBN 0-8536-1365-6. OCLC 20417464.

Boyd, James I.C. [1972] (1989). Narrow Gauge Railways in South Caernarvonshire - Volume 2: The Welsh Highland Railway. Headington, Oxford: The Oakwood Press. ISBN 0-8536-1383-4. OCLC 145018679.