Tal-y-Cafn railway station


Tal-y-Cafn railway station is located at Tal-y-Cafn, Wales, on the Conwy Valley Line from Llandudno Junction to Blaenau Ffestiniog.

History

Until the early 1960s the station had a passing loop and two platforms, was known as Tal-y-Cafn and Eglwysbach and publicised as the station for Bodnant Garden, which is in the parish of Eglwysbach and a lengthy up-hill walk.
The station was renamed from Tal-y-Cafn & Eglwysbach to Tal-y-Cafn on 6 May 1974, although a name board on the disused platform still refers to Eglwysbach.

Facilities

The station buildings, mostly in private occupation, are well maintained. The station is officially an unstaffed halt, but the level crossing at the south end is still manned and retains its manually-operated metal gates; the crossing keeper works out of an office in the main building. Up until 1993, the crossing also had protecting signals worked from a ground frame on the platform; these were replaced by stop and fixed distant boards after the gates were run through by a train.
Digital CIS displays, a pay phone and timetable poster boards are provided to offer train running information. The station has step-free access to the platform from the station entrance, but is not wheelchair accessible.

Services

Six trains call in each direction Mon-Sat, with four departures each way on Sundays. Following serious flood damage to the line in multiple locations caused by Storm Gareth in March 2019, services were suspended and replaced by buses until repair work was carried out. The line reopened in July 2019 after completion of the remedial works.
Further storm damage to the line in the area in February 2020 has once again seen services suspended, with buses replacing trains until September 2020.