Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Snowdon Ranger Station
Betws Garmon, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 29 January 1999
- Locality
- Lyn Cwellyn
- Community
- Betws Garmon
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.07405, -4.14360
- Cadw reference
- 21272
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1795 "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Cadw's description
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 Cwellyn Lake Station.
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.
Reason for designation
Included as a largely unaltered original station on a line important in the history of narrow gauge railways in North Wales.
Nearby in the register
- Pont Cwellyn No 1 and Pont Cwellyn No 2 (also known together as Pont Glan-yr-afon)Transportunder 1 mi
- Beudy & YsguborAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Private Chapel at Plas-y-nantReligious, Ritual and Funerary1 mi
- MilestoneTransport1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.