Boston Lodge Halt railway station
Boston Lodge Halt in North Wales is an unstaffed halt on the narrow gauge Ffestiniog Railway, which was built in 1836 to carry dressed slate from Blaenau Ffestiniog to Porthmadog for export by sea.Photo: Gwernol, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Railway station
- Description: railway station in Gwynedd, Wales, UK
- Also known as: “Boston Lodge Halt”, “Boston Lodge Halt Railway Station”, and “Boston Lodge Halt Station”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Boston Lodge and Castell Deudraeth.
Boston Lodge
Photo: NoelWalley, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Boston Lodge is situated at Penrhyn Isa, Minffordd, Penrhyndeudraeth, on the A487 road about 1 mile SE across the Afon Glaslyn causeway from Porthmadog, Gwynedd in north-west Wales. Boston Lodge is situated 650 feet southwest of Boston Lodge Halt railway station.
Castell Deudraeth
Hotel
Photo: Chrisgj6, Public domain.
Castell Deudraeth is a former manor house approximately 0.5 km NE of Portmeirion in Gwynedd, North Wales. Castell Deudraeth is situated 2,300 feet southeast of Boston Lodge Halt railway station.
Porthmadog Harbour railway station
Railway station
Porthmadog Harbour railway station in Porthmadog, Gwynedd, North Wales, is the passenger terminus of two narrow gauge railways: the Ffestiniog Railway, which was opened in 1836 to carry dressed slate from the Quarries around Blaenau Ffestiniog to the sea port of Porthmadog, for export by sea; and the Welsh Highland Railway, incorporated in 1923, which ran to Dinas. Porthmadog Harbour railway station is situated 1 mile west of Boston Lodge Halt railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Portmeirion and Minffordd.
Portmeirion
Photo: MichaelMaggs, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Portmeirion is an Italian renaissance-style village on the coast of North Wales, most famous for being the setting of the cult television program The Prisoner.
Minffordd
Village
Photo: Skinsmoke, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Minffordd is a village within the Welsh county of Gwynedd. It is situated on the A487 road between Porthmadog and Penrhyndeudraeth, and in the community of the latter.
Porthmadog
Photo: Rob Phillips, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Porthmadog, formerly Portmadoc, is a small coastal town in Gwynedd with a population of 4,000. It has a picturesque harbour. 19th-century wharves survive, but the harbour is used by leisure yachts.
Boston Lodge Halt railway station
- Category: transportation
- Location: Penrhyndeudraeth, Gwynedd, North Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.92087° or 52° 55′ 15″ northLongitude
-4.10461° or 4° 6′ 17″ westElevation
33 feet (10 metres)Operator
Ffestiniog RailwayOpen location code
9C4QWVCW+85OpenStreetMap ID
node 1841504351OpenStreetMap feature
railway=stationGeoNames ID
6952103Wikidata ID
Q4947961
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Boston Lodge Halt railway station” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “station Boston Lodge Halt”
- French: “Boston Lodge”
- Russian: “Бостон Лодж”
- Urdu: “بوسٹن لاج ہالٹ ریلوے اسٹیشن”
- Welsh: “Arhosfa Boston Lodge”
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