Llangelynin station was a single-platform halt on the

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, which served the small village of

Llangelynin Llangelynnin may refer to: * Llangelynnin, Conwy, a former parish in Conwy County Borough, Wales * Llangelynnin, Gwynedd, a village and community in Gwynedd, Wales {{disambiguation ...

Gwynedd Gwynedd () is a county in the north-west of Wales. It borders Anglesey across the Menai Strait to the north, Conwy, Denbighshire, and Powys to the east, Ceredigion over the Dyfi estuary to the south, and the Irish Sea to the west. The ci ...

, Wales. It was opened in 1930 by the

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and was known as ''Llangelynin Halt''. It was closed by

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in 1991; all stations had to be lit at night on safety grounds and it was deemed not worth the upgrade. Train services were officially "suspend d... until further notice" with effect from 25 October 1991; the "unsafe condition of the platform" was given as the reason. The line is still open, but trains no longer call at the station.

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Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1930 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1991 Disused railway stations in Gwynedd Llangelynin, Gwynedd Former Great Western Railway stations {{Wales-railstation-stub