Barlwyd Bridge

Barlwyd Bridge
Previous Station	Tanygrisiau
Previous Location	Dinas Junction FR
Status	Location
Next Location	Glan y Pwll
Next Station	Blaenau Ffestiniog
Stations Locations	Harbour Station

Barlwyd Bridge is just above the old Dinas Junction. Sometime between 1956 & 1970 the bridge collapsed leaving the rails hanging and it was shored up in 1974 in order to take PW trains that were rebuilding the line north of Tanygrisiau. A lot of work was done to prepare the site during a weekend early in October 1975 when a London Area Group working party decended on the bridge to celebrate 21 years of sending working parties to the FR. The Saturday started wet and got wetter & wetter during which the river rose nearly a foot. By the end of the day most of the volunteers looked as though they had fallen in the river but in actual fact no one did. At that time it was hoped to use some concrete beams acquired from a closed BR branch. These proved not to be suitable and were eventually used to reinforce the river bank.

The shored up bridge from the footplate of Diana
*Date: 9th March 1975 *Photo: Jim Hewett

The bridge before full repairs were undertaken.
*Date: 8th October 1975. *Photo: Jim Hewett

The bridge was later rebuilt in 1981.

See also

• Bridges
• Deviation