Place Aber-Tafol Original company Great Western Railway Platforms in use 1 | Area Gwynedd Post-grouping Great Western Railway | |
18 March 1935 Station opens as Abertafol Halt 6 May 1968 Station renamed Abertafol Address Aberdovey LL35 0RE, United Kingdom Original companies Cambrian Line, Great Western Railway Similar Penhelig railway station, Brynglas railway station, Pendre railway station, Dolgoch railway station, Dovey Junction railway st | ||
Abertafol railway station was a halt located on the north shore of the Dyfi estuary in the old Welsh county of Merionethshire (south Gwynedd).
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History
Opened by the Great Western Railway on 18 March 1935 and originally named Abertafol Halt, the station passed on to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. It was renamed Abertafol on 6 May 1968. It was officially closed by the British Railways Board on 30 September 1985, the last train having run on 14 May 1984.
The site today
Trains on the Cambrian Line pass the site of the former halt. There are no remains to be seen today.
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