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Bangor railway station serves the city of Bangor, Gwynedd; it is operated by Transport for Wales. The station, which is 24 + 3 ⁄ 4 miles (40 km) east of Holyhead , is the last mainland station on the North Wales Coast line between Crewe and Holyhead .
The Bangor and Carnarvon Railway was authorised by the Bangor and Caernarvon Railway Act 1851 (14 & 15 Vict. c. xxi) on 20 May 1851. [2] The Bangor and Caernarvon Railway Act 1851 permitted the Chester and Holyhead Railway to work the line. It was to make a junction with the C&HR main line at a junction a little east of Britannia Bridge. [3] [4]
Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies. Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0049-7. OCLC 19514063. CN 8983. Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
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The station was opened by the Belfast and County Down Railway on 1 May 1865 and closed to goods traffic on 24 April 1950.. Daylight saving time was introduced by the Summer Time Act 1916 and implemented on 1 October 1916 as GMT plus one hour and Dublin Mean Time plus one hour.
It was opened on 1 June 1928 [3] by the Belfast and County Down Railway to serve the rapidly expanding suburbs of Bangor. It was initially provided with a wooden structure on the up side to function as waiting room and ticket office. It was replaced with a simple, more robust concrete structure in 1978.
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The railway was built by the government of the Cape Colony between 1890 and 1906, to connect the Langkloof fruit growing industry with the new port at Port Elizabeth. [2] The section of line between Humewood Road and Humansdorp was opened for public traffic on 1 November 1905.