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Morfa Mawddach railway station

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The station has very few facilities. There is a payphone on the platform, but there are no toilets or help points available. There is a small waiting shelter and a car park with 20 spaces.
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is often quoted as an example of a notable feature of the Great Western Railway in Wales, namely its inheritance of junctions in unlikely and inconvenient locations. Other examples are
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The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present
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Estuary: parking at the station and taking the train to Barmouth is often much quicker than the 20-mile road journey via
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from 1956 to 1962. In 1963 the administration of camping coaches at the station was taken over by the
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and opened on 3 July 1865 as Barmouth Junction. From 1899 to 1903 there was a connection with the
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British Railway Camping Coach Holidays: The 1930s & British Railways (London Midland Region)
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Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day
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British Railways Camping Coach Holidays: A Tour of Britain in the 1950s and 1960s
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Until the 1960s there was a summer service between London Paddington and
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from 1934 to 1939. A camping coach was also positioned here by the
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in 1865, it was formerly the junction station for the
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Railway stations served by Transport for Wales Rail
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Index

National Rail

Arthog
Gwynedd
52°42′28″N 4°01′54″W / 52.7077°N 4.0316°W / 52.7077; -4.0316
Grid reference
SH628142
Transport for Wales
DfT category
Aberystwith and Welsh Coast Railway
Cambrian Railways
Great Western Railway
Office of Rail and Road
Arthog
Gwynedd
Cambrian Coast line
Machynlleth
Pwllheli
Aberystwith and Welsh Coast Railway
Ruabon to Barmouth Line

Aberystwith [sic] and Welsh Coast Railway
Barmouth Junction and Arthog Tramway
GWR
camp coach
Western Region
London Midland
Afon Mawddach
Barmouth Bridge
Barmouth

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