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Snowdon Ranger Station

A Grade II Listed Building in Betws Garmon, Gwynedd

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.0741 / 53°4'26"N

Longitude: -4.1436 / 4°8'36"W

OS Eastings: 256491

OS Northings: 355128

OS Grid: SH564551

Mapcode National: GBR 5P.B7YF

Mapcode Global: WH54T.BZ3R

Plus Code: 9C5Q3VF4+JH

Entry Name: Snowdon Ranger Station

Listing Date: 29 January 1999

Last Amended: 13 July 2004

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 21272

Building Class: Transport

ID on this website: 300021272

Location: Located on the disused North Wales Narrow Gauge Railway off the north side of the A 4085 approximately 100m north-west of the Snowdon Ranger Youth Hostel overlooking Lyn Cwellyn. Formerly known as Cw

County: Gwynedd

Community: Betws Garmon

Community: Betws Garmon

Locality: Lyn Cwellyn

Traditional County: Caernarfonshire

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History

Formerly known as Snowdon Ranger, Cwellyn Lake Station was a small station on the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railway, this section of which opened in 1878. Never successful either as a passenger or a goods line, the company, along with several other small companies, was incorporated into the Welsh Highland Railway in 1922. The line finally closed in 1937.

Exterior

Former railway station. Roughly coursed rubblestone; hipped slate roof with internal yellow brick stack to right slope. Track side has recessed 16-pane fixed light windows with slate cills to left and right of central 4-panel door.

Interior

Not inspected at time of survey.

Reasons for Listing

Included as a largely unaltered original station on a line important in the history of narrow gauge railways in North Wales.

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