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{{Short description|Disused railway station in Gwynedd, Wales}}
{{Infobox UK disused station▼
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2015}}
|name = Aberangell
{{Use British English|date=July 2015}}
|image_name = aberangell station remains geograph-3222734-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg
▲{{Infobox UK disused station
|caption = Location of the former station (1999)
|locale name = [[Aberangell]]
| status = Disused
|borough = [[Gwynedd]]
| originalimage = [[Mawddwy Railway]] =
| pregroupborough = [[CambrianAberangell]], Railways[[Gwynedd]]
| country = Wales
| postgroup = [[Great Western Railway]]▼
| platforms = ?1
| original = [[Mawddwy Railway]]
|latitude =
| pregroup = [[Cambrian Railways]]
|longitude =
▲| postgroup = [[Great Western Railway]]
|gridref =
| years = [[?]] 1865 = 1867
| events = Station opens
| years1 = April 17, 1901 = 1874
| events1 = [[Hendre-Ddu Tramway|Hendre Ddu Tramway]] opens
|events1 = Station closes
| years2 = July17 31,April 19111901
| events2 = Station reopenscloses to passengers
| years3 = January31 1,July 19311911
| events3 = Station closes = Station reopens
| years4 = 1 January 1931<ref>{{cite book|last=Quick|first=M E|title=Railway passenger stations in England, Scotland and Wales – a chronology|year=2002|publisher=Railway and Canal Historical Society|location=Richmond|page=40|oclc=931112387}}</ref>
| events4 = Station closes to passengers
| years5 = 1939
| events5 = Hendre Ddu Tramway closes
| years6 = 1952
| events6 = Station closes to all traffic
}}
 
'''Aberangell railway station''' was aan intermediate [[railway station]] on the [[CambrianMawddwy Railway]] branch which ran from Cemmaes Road to Dinas Mawddy in the [[Wales|Welsh]] county of [[Merionethshire]]. The station was opened by the Mawddwy Railway thenin 1867 and closed to all goods traffic in 1908. The railway re-opened in 1911 with all services run by thatthe company[[Cambrian forRailways]]. tenIt yearswas amalgamated into the [[Great Western Railway]] in 1923 as part of the early[[Railways Act 1921|grouping]] of British railways, and remained open to passenger and freight traffic until 1931 and 20th1952, centuryrespectively. The station was the contacttransshipment point between the branch and the [[Hendre- Ddu Tramway]].
 
==History==
The [[Mawddwy Railway]] was first opened in 1867, however it was closed to passenger traffic in 1901, and closed to all goods traffic in 1908. It reopened on 31 July 1911 as a [[light railway]] system, as a result of the support of several local councils.<ref name="h1">{{cite web|title=Disused Station: Aberangell|url=http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/a/aberangell/|publisher=Disused Railway Stations|accessdate=10 April 2016}}</ref> The railway was incorporated, as part of the Cambrian Railways, into the [[Great Western Railway]] during the [[Railways Act 1921|Grouping]] of 1923. The railway closed its passenger services in 1931, although the line continued to remain open for freight traffic until 1952.<ref name=h1/>
The station was incorporated, as part of the Cambrian Railway, into the [[Great Western Railway]] during the [[Railways Act 1921|Grouping]] of 1923, closing eight years later.
 
The station served local passenger needs. There was also a thriving goods service, with parcels and farm machinery delivered by the Mawddwy Railway and livestock being sent away from the station. The Hendre Ddu Tramway connected a number of local slate quarries to the station, where a wharf was provided to unload slate onto Mawddwy Railway wagons. During the [[First World War]] a great deal of timber was felled in the forests west of Aberangell. This was sawn into pit props and sent down the Hendre Ddu Tramway to be shipped out on the standard gauge railway. This timber traffic continued into the early 1920s. Some logs were shipped to Dinas Mawddwy where a sawmill processed them into timber. The Hendre Ddu Tramway closed in 1938. During the [[Second World War]] ammunition was stored in the Hendreddu Quarry, arriving by Great Western Railway trains and being taken by lorry along the tramway trackbed to the quarry.<ref>{{cite book |first=Dan |last=Quine |author-link=Dan Quine |title=The Hendre Ddu Tramway: Blue Stones and Green Trees |publisher=Lightmoor Press |date=December 2022 |isbn=9781915069153}}</ref>
==The site today==
A new road runs through the station site.
 
== References ==
{{reflist}}
*{{cite book|author=R.V.J.Butt, |title= The Directory of Railway Stations |publisher=Patrick Stephens Ltd |year=1995}} ISBN 1-85260-508-1▼
*{{cite book|author=A. Jowett, |title= Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas |publisher=Atlantic Publishing |year=2000}} ISBN 0-906899-99-0▼
 
===Bibliography===
*Sub Brit page on the station [http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/stations/a/aberangell/index.shtml]
▲*{{cite book|authorfirst=R.V.J. |last=Butt, |title= The Directory of Railway Stations |publisher=Patrick Stephens Ltd |year=1995}} |ISBN =1-85260-508-1}}
 
▲*{{cite book|authorfirst=A. |last=Jowett, |title= Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas |publisher=Atlantic Publishing |year=2000}} |ISBN =0-906899-99-0}}
* [http://www.npemap.org.uk/tiles/map.html#284,309,1 Aberangell station on navigable O. S. map]
 
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