Duffws

Duffws
Duffws, 1968
Previous Station	Blaenau Ffestiniog
Status	Station Closed
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Latitude	52:59:41.66N
Longitude	03:56:04.47W
Grid Reference	SH702459
Stations Locations	Harbour Station

NGR:SH702459 Lat / Long :52.99489 / -3.93466

Stamp - old company Parcels
Issue No.	old company Parcels
First Issued	unknown
Railway Letter Service

This entry refers to the Ffestiniog Railway station at Duffws. There was also a Festiniog and Blaenau Railway station Dolgarreg ddu, which was located near today's footcrossing in the car park.

The Duffws passenger station (referred to within the Wiki as 'FR Duffws') first opened in January 1866 and led a chequered existence until final closure in 1931. The building remains today as a council operated public convenience, across the main road from the Queen's Hotel.

Over time there have been at least 3 different spellings of the name: - Diphwys, Dyffws, Duffws.

Duffws in the 1880s, with Little Giant, Welsh Pony and Taliesin (FR archives).
Note the Ashbury carriage and quarrymen's carriages on the left while straight ahead between the locomotives is the storage shed used to stable quarrymen's carriages during the week

Welsh Pony at Duffws water tower, 1906. Note Ashbury four-wheelers behind.

Duffws in 1968. After the closure of Duffws passenger and goods station in 1931 the site was cleared of most of the track, and part of it became a car park. The tracks visible here were retained to connect to the quarry inclines, but were walled off from the rest of the site. Beyond the fence to the left of the mineral lines is the site of a building once a Refreshment Room and later a shop (J. Jones, Tailor), that appears in the background of many old photos of locos at this spot. This picture was taken from the Queens Bridge (which carried Church Road over the line) and in the 1950s a quarry-owned diesel shunter was stabled under the bridge.

Duffws in 2011. The quarry lines were removed in October 1968 and the wall has since been demolished and the car park extended. The fence to the left of the mineral lines has also gone. Queens Bridge has now been removed, so this was taken from ground level. Compare also with the 1880s picture above, the viewpoint is similar.

From the opposite direction the view looks like this

See also

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