Caernarfon is the new northern terminus of the extended narrow gauge Welsh Highland Railway from Dinas and the station was opened on October 11th 1997. The railway between Caernarfon and Dinas was formerly part of the standard gauge Carnarvonshire Railway (later LNWR and LMS) between Caernarfon and Afon Wen which was closed by British Railways in 1965, and the tracks lifted. The present Caernarfon station is on the old standard gauge trackbed adjacent to St. Helen's Road, opposite the former locomotive works of De Winton & Co. and beneath the high retaining walls of Segontium Terrace. The station buildings accommodate the booking office, a tourist shop and passenger facilities. Narrow-gauge railways are railroads (railways) with track spaced at less than the standard gauge of 4 ft 8 in (1. ... ex-South African Railways Garratt no 138 Millennium/Mileniwm hauling a train out of Caernarfon station December 28, 2004 Sister engine, no 143 in the countryside. ... The London and North Western Railway (LNWR) was formed in 1846 by the merger of three railway companies - the Grand Junction Railway, London and Birmingham and Manchester and Birmingham. ... LMS is an acronym with a few different meanings: London Mathematical Society Learning Management System Least mean squares an algorithm for adaptive filtering in digital signal processing London, Midland and Scottish Railway London Missionary Society LMS Color Space Library Management System LMS is also a user name used by Larry... British Railways (BR), later rebranded as British Rail, ran the British railway system, from the nationalisation of the Big Four British railway companies in 1948 until its privatisation in stages between 1994 and 1997. ...

The narrow gauge line was built from Dinas to Caernarfon in 1997 thus providing the narrow gauge extension to Caernarfon of the Welsh Highland Railway that was originally authorised by Act of Parliament. Between Caernarfon and Dinas, the new Welsh Highland line shares the old standard gauge trackbed with the 'Lon Eifion' tourist cycle track. The line was extended from Dinas in 2000 on the old Welsh Highland Railway route, following the complete reconstruction of the railway, to Waunfawr and again in 2003 to Rhyd Ddu. The reconstruction of the Welsh Highland Railway from Rhyd Ddu to Porthmadog started in 2005. The train services are operated by the Ffestiniog Railway Company. Waunfawr Waunfawr is a large village on the outskirts of Snowdonia National Park, Gwynedd, in Wales. ... Rhyd Ddu is small village in Snowdonia, North Wales. ... Porthmadog, (Pronounced Port Madock), known locally as Port, is a small coastal town located in Gwynedd, in north-west Wales, traditionally part of Caernarfonshire. ... Double fairlie Merddyn Emrys with train Double Fairlie Earl of Merionedd at Tanybwlch At Blaenau Ffestiniog Minffordd Station Historic coaches, including 1897-built ex-Lynton and Barnstaple Railway no 14 (centre) at Tanybwlch. ...

Northwards of the present Caernarfon station, the former standard gauge line ran through a tunnel, which is now used by a public road, to the site of the original Caernarfon station.

References

1. J.I.C.Boyd; Narrow Gauge Railways in South Caernarvonshire, 1972, revised edition in two volumes 1988/1999.

External links

• The Welsh Highland Railway Project - official reconstruction site
• The Welsh Highland Railway (Caernarfon)
• Rebuilding The Welsh Highland Railway - an independent site

• Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railway Timetables

• Multimap Map of Caernarfon

Preceding station	Heritage railways			Following station
Terminus		Welsh Highland Railway		Bont Newydd