North Wales
Gwynedd
Llangywer

Llangower railway station

Llangower was a minor station opened by the GWR on the Ruabon to Barmouth line in 1929 on the southern shore of serving the hamlet of Llangower.
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  • Type: Railway station
  • Description: railway station in Gwynedd, Wales, UK
  • Also known as: “Llangower Station”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Bala Lake and Pentrepiod Halt railway station.

Lake
Photo: Mick Garratt, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Llyn Tegid, also known as or Lake Bala in English, is a large freshwater glacial lake in , Wales. The , which has its source on the slopes of in the mountains of , feeds the 3.7-by-0.5-mile lake.

Railway station
Photo: Timothy Titus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pentrepiod railway station is a small unstaffed railway halt on the Bala Lake Railway alongside the B4403. Trains will stop here by request only, and the station can only be accessed by means of footpaths around the lake. is situated 3,800 feet southwest of Llangower railway station.

Railway station
Photo: Voice of Clam, Public domain.
in the village of , , Wales, was formerly a station on the Ruabon to Barmouth line. It closed to passengers on Monday 18 January 1965 at the same time as the rest of the line, but subsequently reopened in 1972 as the southern terminus of the narrow gauge Bala Lake Railway. is situated 2 miles southwest of Llangower railway station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Parc and Llanuwchllyn.

Village
Photo: Rick Crowley, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village, which is situated 2 miles northwest of Llangower railway station.

Village
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is a village and community in , Wales, near the southern end of . It is one of the most sparsely populated communities in Wales. is situated 2 miles southwest of Llangower railway station.

Photo: Llywelyn2000, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a picturesque town of 2,000 people on the shores of Lake in , . It lies at the south-eastern edge of the . Excellent national centre for white water rafting and canoeing nearby.

Llangower railway station

Latitude
52.87501° or 52° 52′ 30″ north
Longitude
-3.6323° or 3° 37′ 56″ west
Elevation
545 feet (166 metres)
Operator
Bala Lake Railway
Open location code
9C4RV9G9+23
Open­Street­Map ID
node 264483631
Open­Street­Map feature
public_transport=­station
Open­Street­Map feature
railway=­station
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
7676343
Wiki­data ID
Q6661518
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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Welsh—“Llangower railway station” goes by many names.
  • Dutch: “station Llangower”
  • French: “Llangower”
  • Welsh: “Gorsaf Reilffordd Llangower”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Llangower railway station”. Photo: Traveler100, CC BY-SA 3.0.