FR Locations

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N.B. BEWARE Certain placenames are used frequently in the area. One example being Bont Newydd. This is a place referred in Boyd, said to be located near to Rhiw Plas/Minffordd Cemetery. It also refers in the form Bontnewydd to a village, and request halt on the Welsh Highland - some 15 miles northwest..

Locations around Porthmadog

Note that throughout this wiki the names Portmadoc and Porthmadog have been variously used, the first being the English name whilst the second being the Welsh, and currently, offical title. In older documentation there have been other spellings, including Portmadock, and Port Madoc.

Some of these locations are duplicated on the WHR Locations page.

• Afon Glaslyn
• Cei Ballast
• CTRL
• Porthmadog
• Portmadoc Harbour
• South Snowdon Wharf Development
• Spooner's
• Traeth Bach
• Traeth Mawr
• Ynystywyn

Locations along the Line

Stations and halts are in larger type. Locations on the current official route as defined by the rule book are in bold however this is not a full list of official locations only those easily identifiable to the lay person or of other interest are chosen. Inset locations are not on the route itself but are nearby and of interest.

• Porthmadog (Harbour Station) <A> <C>

• FR-WHR Junction

• The Cob
• Pen Cob <A>
• Boston Lodge Works

• Glan-Y-Mor

• Tollgate Foot Crossing
• Boston Lodge Halt <<C>>
• Boston Lodge Halt Crossing
• Bron Madoc
• Rhiw Plas Bridge
• Cemetery Cutting
• Quarry Lane Crossing/Lottie's Crossing (Minffordd Crossing)
• Weigh Bridge Crossing
• Minffordd <A> <C>

• Minffordd Yard
• Minffordd Hostel

• Pont Cae Ednyfed
• Bron Turnor Crossing
• Gwyndy Bank
• Gwyndy Bridge
• Tŷ Fry Curve
• Pen y Bryn Footcrossing <<A>>
  
• Capel Nazareth Bridge
• Bake House Crossing
• Penrhyn <A><C>
• Penrhyn Crossing
• 100 Mile an hour Straight
• Rhiw Goch Farm Crossing
• Rhiw Goch <<A>>
• Leadmine Curve
• Cei Mawr

• The woods above Cei Mawr

• Cutting Naddu
• Trwyn-y-Garnedd
• Gysgfa
• Gysgfa Cutting
• Squirrel Crossing - Linda's Leap
• Cutting Budr
• Sheepfold Curves
• Cutting Gwlyb
• Bryn Mawr
• Plas Private<<A>>
• Milestone Curve
• Tyler's Curve
• Plas Halt <<C>>
• King's Crossing (Unofficial)
• Llechwedd Coed
• Crossing Bothy
• Crossing Mawr
• Whistling Curve
• Three Gates
• Hafod y Llyn (FR) <<A>>
• Tan y Bwlch Bridge
• Tan y Bwlch <A> <C>

• Llyn Mair
• Plas Tan y Bwlch

• Creuau Bank
• Garnedd Tunnel
• Coed y Bleiddiau Foot Crossing and Halt <<A>>
• Tadpole Cutting
• Tank Curve
• Campbell's Platform <<A>>

• Dduallt Manor

• Bunny's Foot Crossing
• Hen Bont
• Rhoslyn Cutting
• Dduallt <<C>>

The old line from Dduallt to Tanygrisiau via Old Moelwyn tunnel or the Inclines

• The 1836 Inclines

• Tunnel South Halt
• Old Moelwyn Tunnel
• Moelwyn Halt
• Brooke's Quarry
• The Drowned Trackbed
• Doppog

The New Line from Dduallt to Tanygrisiau known as the Deviation

• Sites -1 to 4
• Deviation Site -1
• Deviation Site 0
• Deviation Site 1
• Cei Bog
• Deviation Site 2
• Spiral Cutting

• Orientation Table

• Deviation Site 3
• Deviation Stone
• Cei a'r Bont
• Deviation Site 4
• Rhoslyn Bridge
• Barn Cutting
• Dingle Curve
• Midge
• Rosary
• Spooner's Hollow
• Dragon
• New Moon
• Royal Oak Site
• Gelliwiog <<A>>
• Bluebell Site
• Two Trees
• The Football Pitch
• (New) Tunnel South

• Tunnel Mess (Actually on the old line, but near to and used for the Deviation)

• (New) Moelwyn Tunnel
• Tunnel North
• Culvert Two (Archer Dam)
• Llyn Ystradau <<A>>
• Moelwyn Quarry Incline
• Summit Cutting
• Power Station Cutting
• Valvehouse Crossing (Penstock Road Crossing)
• Wrysgan Quarry Incline
• Stwlan Dam Road Crossing
• Cwmorthin Bridge
• Tanygrisiau <A><C>
• Footbridge 1
• Cwmorthin Siding
• Dolrhedyn Road Bridge
• Penlan
• Footbridge 2
• Footbridge 3
• Barlwyd Terrace
• Bodychain
• Groby Junction
• Groesffordd (Footbridge 4)
• Nyth Y Gigfran Incline
• Dinas Junction FR

• Dinas Branch
• Dinas

• Barlwyd Bridge
• Glan y Pwll
• Glan y Pwll Crossing
• Stesion Fein (Blaenau Festiniog Junction (for LNWR)) <<A>>
• A496 Bridge
• Benar Road Bridge
• Dorfil Bridge
• Blaenau Ffestinog <A>

• Blaenau Festiniog (GWR)
• FR Duffws

• Rhiwbach Tramway

For a more complete list of locations see the following pages: Locations/Porthmadog to Boston Lodge Halt, Locations/Boston Lodge Halt to Minffordd, Locations/Minffordd to Penrhyn, Locations/Penrhyn to Plas Halt, Locations/Plas Halt to Tan y Bwlch, Locations/Tan y Bwlch to Dduallt, Locations/Dduallt to Tanygrisiau and Locations/Tanygrisiau to Blaenau Ffestiniog.

Other

• Mileposts including a detailed list of their locations
• Deviation: East Side Locations A list of locations planned on the East Side Route of the Deviation but never built.

These Stations / Halts are no longer on the current route

Portmadoc New (1933) (WHR Intermediate)

Portmadoc New (1923) (WHR Intermediate)

Tunnel South Halt (old route)

Moelwyn Halt (old route)

Dinas (old branch)

Rhiwbryfdir (old branch)

Duffws (old route)

Location of Company Facilities

The company Head Office is at Harbour Station
For rolling stock operations the main works and running shed are at Boston Lodge
There are FR depots for Permanent Way and Civil Engineering at Minffordd Yard and Glan y Pwll
The principal WHR/RhE running shed and depot is at Dinas Junction.

The WHR Ltd/WHHR shed, works and museum are at Gelert's Farm Works

See also

• FR Stations
• WHR Stations
• WHR Locations