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Betws-y-Coed railway station

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The comprehensive range of passenger station buildings have been preserved and sympathetically adapted for use as a cafe, coffee shop, holiday apartments and retail outlets. The station now functions as an unstaffed halt. The platform was refurbished and a digital Passenger Information System
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on 16 March 2019. Repairs took several months to complete, with a replacement bus service in operation in the meantime. The line was reopened on 24 July 2019, in time for the staging of the National Eisteddfod in Llanrwst. Further storm damage to the north (this time from
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to Blaenau Ffestiniog. Other entrepreneurs proposed narrow gauge lines from Corwen to Betws-y-Coed, Penmachno to Betws-y-Coed and from Beddgelert to Betws-y-Coed. In the event the line to Blaenau, which was not completed until 1879, was built to
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Betws-y-Coed is an important tourist village and the station is centrally located beside the large village green. The district has magnificent scenery and there are several spectacular waterfalls, including the much visited
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day ticket is valid on Conwy Valley trains as well as the Sherpa and Conwy Valley bus services. There is also a coach park at the station, which is used extensively by tourist coach operators.
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Services from this station were suspended following serious flood damage to the track and associated infrastructure resulting from the heavy rainfall associated with
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The loop was removed in the 1960s but the footbridge that previously gave access to the now removed down platform has been retained and provides access to the
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for export by sea. The original plans envisaged a railhead at Betws-y-Coed and a large goods yard was established with intended interchange to a proposed
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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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Extensive passenger and goods facilities were however provided at Betws-y-Coed, where the station, which was opened in 1868, adjoins the
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Six trains each way per day call on Mondays to Saturdays (approximately every three hours), with four trains each way on Sundays.
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installed in Spring 2009. Train running information is also provided via telephone and timetable poster boards.
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British Railway Camping Coach Holidays: The 1930s & British Railways (London Midland Region)
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timetables the station was listed as "Bettws-y-Coed - Station for Capel Curig".
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There was originally a passing loop with full length up and down platforms. A
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line (with a significant saving in construction costs) via the steeply graded
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The railway station is also an important bus interchange. It is used by the
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The Old Railway Station - Retail facilities in the station building
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and was thus ideally located to serve many isolated communities in
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Patrons of the station café watch a train pass. (September 2009)
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with the primary aim of transporting dressed slate from the
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Flood damaged Conwy Valley line could be closed for months
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Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology
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and also the rapidly developing tourist industry. In the
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from 1955 to 1959; this coach was replaced in 1960 by a
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Flood-hit Conwy Valley line set to reopen next month
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Railway stations served by Transport for Wales Rail
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news article 25 March 2019; Retrieved 26 March 2019
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National Rail

Betws-y-coed
Conwy
53°05′31″N 3°48′04″W / 53.092°N 3.801°W / 53.092; -3.801
Grid reference
SH795565
Transport for Wales Rail
DfT category
London and North Western Railway
Office of Rail and Road
Conwy Valley Line
Llandudno
Blaenau Ffestiniog
Transport for Wales Rail
Welsh
Snowdonia National Park
Capel Curig
Pen-y-Gwryd
Pen-y-Pass
Beddgelert
Porthmadog
Tryfan
Bethesda
Penmachno
Corwen
Llangollen
Llanrwst
Trefriw
Dolgarrog

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