Tan-y-Manod
The station around 1875
General information
Location	Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd Wales
Coordinates	52°59′21″N 3°55′45″W / 52.9893°N 3.9292°W / 52.9893; -3.9292
Grid reference	SH 705 452
Platforms	0[1]
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Festiniog and Blaenau Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Key dates
30 May 1868	Opened
5 September 1883[2][3]	Station closed to passengers[4]
10 September 1883	Standard gauge service and engine shed opened[5]
1906	Engine shed closed

v t e Festiniog & Blaenau Railway
Legend
to Porthmadog Harbour Dolgarregddu Junction Duffws (FR) Diphwys inclines to quarries Glynllifon Street wooden viaduct Tan-y-Manod to Graig Ddu and Manod quarries Tyddyngwyn Festiniog
Key
Ffestiniog Railway Festiniog & Blaenau Rly quarry lines

v t e Bala & Festiniog Railway
Legend
Conwy Valley line to Llandudno Ffestiniog Railway to Porthmadog Harbour Blaenau Festiniog Junction Blaenau Ffestiniog North Blaenau Ffestiniog Ffestiniog Railway to Duffws (FR) Diphwys (F&BR) Glynllifon Street (F&BR) Former wooden viaduct Tan-y-Manod (F&BR) Graig Ddu Quarry Pengwern Quarry Tyddyngwyn (F&BR) Manod Teigl Halt Festiniog Maentwrog Road Line to south dismantled Trawsfynydd power station loading point Trawsfynydd Lake Halt Trawsfynydd Camp Trawsfynydd Llafar Halt Bryn-Celynog Halt Cwm Prysor Viaduct Cwm Prysor Halt Arenig Capel Celyn Halt Section flooded by Llyn Celyn Tyddyn Bridge Halt (under dam wall) Frongoch Bala (New) Bala Junction Ruabon–Barmouth line to Llandderfel Bala (Penybont) (original Bala Lake Halt) Bala Lake Railway to Llanuwchllyn Ruabon–Barmouth line to Barmouth

Tan-y-Manod railway station was a railway station approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Blaenau Ffestiniog, in Gwynedd (formerly Merionethshire), North Wales.

History

Narrow gauge days

The station was on the 1 ft 11+3⁄4 in (603 mm)^[6] narrow gauge Festiniog and Blaenau Railway (F&BR); it opened with the line on 30 May 1868. The F&BR ran the three and a half route miles from its southern terminus at Llan Ffestiniog to a junction with the Ffestiniog Railway (FR) at Dolgarregddu Junction near what is nowadays Blaenau Ffestiniog station.^[7]

The station site served three purposes:

• a passenger station, whose main but not sole traffic was quarrymen travelling to and from work
• a passing loop, and
• a place where inclines from slate quarries met the F&BR

In common with all other F&BR stations there were no platforms, carriages were very low to the ground, so passengers boarded from and alighted to the trackside. The station had a single-storey building on the eastern, outer, side of the sharply curving track. No details of its facilities have been published.^[8][9] In common with Festiniog and Tyddyngwyn stations, the only published photographs were taken from a distance, lending the buildings the appearance of corrugated iron. The sole close-up photo is of the line's northern terminus - Duffws (F&BR).^[10] This shows the building to bear a striking resemblance to 21st Century PVC weatherboarding. If the line's other stations were made of the same material that would explain their corrugated mien.

In F&BR days the gauges of the quarries, the F&BR and the Ffestiniog Railway were sufficiently close to allow trucks to pass between the three, with the F&BR being near enough to FR standards to enable FR locos and wagons to use F&BR metals to reach Tan-y-Manod if needed, which they were until F&BR locos arrived some time after the line opened, and occasionally thereafter. Loaded wagons would descend the inclines from Manod and Craig Ddu slate quarries to Tany-y-Manod then be hauled northwards to the FR, who forwarded them to customers or to ships at Porthmadog Harbour.

Services

The February 1878 narrow gauge timetable shows that all trains called at all stations on the line, with Zdroj:https://en.wikipedia.org?pojem=Tan-y-Manod_railway_station
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