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A southerly view of Beddgelert Station during construction, 2007. Work to rebuild the station began in December 2006. The new station has a large curved island platform, allowing for two trains to pass each other. There are two small shelters for passenger use. A large water tower has been installed at the north west end of the platform.
The passenger train service is operated by Transport for Wales Rail and is marketed as the Conwy Valley Railway (Welsh: Rheilffordd Dyffryn Conwy). The railway station is also an important bus interchange. It is used by the Snowdonia National Park Sherpa bus services to Capel Curig, Pen-y-Gwryd, Pen-y-Pass, Beddgelert, Porthmadog, Tryfan and ...
Trains run for 1-mile (1.6 km) to Pen-y-Mount Junction, where the railway connects with the WHR mainline. On the return journey, the train stops at Gelert's Farm halt , allowing passengers to visit the museum and a 7 + 1 ⁄ 4 in ( 184 mm ) gauge miniature railway .
WHR locomotive K1, the first Garratt articulated locomotive, at Snowdon Ranger halt with train and Snowdonia behind. The original Welsh Highland Railway was formed in 1922 from the merger of two companies – the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways (NWNGR) and the Portmadoc, Beddgelert and South Snowdon Railway (PBSSR), [6] successor to the Portmadoc, Croesor and Beddgelert Tram Railway.
Although Thomas Cook Group plc ceased publication in 2013, the Thomas Cook European Rail Timetable was revived by a new company in early 2014 as simply the European Rail Timetable. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] From 1981 to 2010, Cook also produced a similar bi-monthly Overseas volume covering the rest of the world, [ 3 ] and some of that content was moved into ...
The Portmadoc, Beddgelert and South Snowdon Railway (PB&SSR) was a 1 ft 11 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (597 mm) narrow gauge railway intended to connect Porthmadog (then spelled Portmadoc) with the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways link terminus at Rhyd Ddu.
After Bradshaw's ceased printing in 1961 [4] (as it couldn't compete with the cheaper regional timetables), there was a gap of 13 years without a system-wide schedule. This changed in 1974, when British Rail launched their first nationwide timetable, costing 50p (roughly £10 in 2020) and running to 1,350 pages. [ 1 ]
Network Rail had discontinued official hard copies in favour of PDF editions, which could be downloaded free of charge. As a tribute to Bradshaw, Middleton Press named its timetables the Bradshaw-Mitchell's Rail Times. A competing edition reproduced from Network Rail's artwork, is published by TSO, [14] This is a same-size reproduction of the ...