Tan-y-Bwlch railway station

Tan-y-Bwlch
Station on heritage railway
Tan-y-Bwlch around 1900
General information
Location	Tan-y-Bwlch, Gwynedd Wales
Coordinates	52°57′16″N 4°00′40″W / 52.95439°N 4.01112°W / 52.95439; -4.01112
Grid reference	SH650415
Owned by	Festiniog Railway Company
Managed by	Ffestiniog Railway
Platforms	2
Key dates
July 1873	Opened
15 September 1939	Closed
5 April 1958	Re-opened

Tan-y-Bwlch railway station is the principal intermediate passenger station on the narrow gauge Ffestiniog Railway, which was built in 1836 to carry dressed slate from Blaenau Ffestiniog to Porthmadog for export by sea. The station lies off the B4410 former turnpike road from Maentwrog to Llanfrothen and Beddgelert, which the railway crosses on a fine cast-iron skew bridge (made at Boston Lodge foundry in 1854 and surmounted by 'gothic' balustrades).

Tan-y-Bwlch is at a height of 430 ft (130 m). and at a distance of just under 7.5 miles (12.1 km) from Porthmadog.