Llangollen railway

One of the most photographed stations in the UK

 

 

In the most beautiful of settings right alongside the

river Dee

 

It now has a run of some ten miles

 

 

 

Llangollen was already a popular place for tourists by the 1840s. Travel up to this point had been by horse-drawn carriage, but by the 1840s the Shrewsbury to Chester line had been completed, allowing passengers to alight at Llangollen Road (later known as Whitehurst Halt), and then take a coach towards Holyhead.
However, the commercial development of the local mining industry meant that the development of a railway became essential to the region's economic development. A number of schemes were proposed, including one by the LNWR, but it was not until 1 August 1859 that scheme engineered by Henry Robertson received Royal Assent. The 5.25 miles (8.4 km) Vale of Llangollen Railway left the Shrewsbury to Chester main line 0.5 miles (0.8 km) south of Ruabon, and proceeded as a single track line on a double track route via Acrefair to the new station at Llangollen. The line opened to freight on 1 December 1861, and to passengers on 2 June 1862 at a temporary terminus on the town's eastern outskirts.
The extension to Corwen was undertaken by the associated but separate Llangollen and Corwen Railway company, and involved constructing a long tunnel under the Berwyn Mountains. It, together with the new centrally positioned and larger station in Llangollen, opened for service on 1 May 1865.

 

Thankfully nature as always reclaims the industrial

intrusion of man

 

Berwin Station is set in a very lovely part of the

Vale of Llangollen

 

The Station is maintained by volunteers and is open

at Weekends

 

The River Dee flows rapidly through and it has

become a centre for canoeing.

 

Berwyn originally referred to the Berwyn range of mountains in northeast Wales:
Cadair Berwyn or Cader Berwyn is a mountain summit in north east Wales
Cadair Berwyn North Top or Cadair Berwyn (Old Top) is a top of Cadair Berwyn in north east Wales.

Carrog Station was the old terminus of the preserved

railway.

 

 

As with all the stations it is set in some superb

rural North Wales countryside

 

No longer the terminus as the railway was extended

to Corwen in 2014

 

5199 waits to depart for Llangollen

 

Carrog is a village in Denbighshire, Wales. Formerly referred to as Llansanffraid-Glyn Dyfrdwy, as it lies within the parish of Llansanffraid Glyndyfrdwy, it takes its modern name from the Great Western Railway station on the opposite bank of the River Dee, which in turn took its name (possibly to avoid confusion with the adjacent Glyn Dyfrdwy station and that in Llansanffraid Glan Conwy from the Carrog estate on that bank.
Carrog Station is part of the Llangollen Railway and is a passing place on the line, now the extension to Corwen past the site of Bonwm has been opened. One notable resident is Peredur Lynch who graduated from Bangor University to become a literary historian. Carrog has one primary school, Ysgol Carrog which is over 100 years old.

 

The lines new terminus at Corwen

 

Many thanks to the Llangollen railway for the last

two pictures. All other pictures are my own. many thanks

to Wikipedia for the text on the history of the line

 

Go to the Llangollen line at http://www.llangollen-railway.co.uk/