Ffridd Gate railway station

Ffridd Gate
File:Ffridd Gate station site geograph-3516553-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg Site of the station in 1992
General information
Location	Wales
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Pre-grouping	Corris Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway (after 1930)
Key dates
25 August 1887	Opened
1 January 1931	Closed
Location

Ffridd Gate was a station on the Corris Railway in Merioneth (now Gwynedd), Wales, UK. It was built at the level crossing over the B4404 road to Llanwrin, near the hamlet of Fridd. A small hamlet also grew up around the station and a nearby (pre-existent) toll-house. The hamlet and former station are near to the confluence of the Afon Dulas and the River Dyfi, around 2+1⁄4 miles (3.6 km) west of the village of Llanwrin and 1 mile (1.6 km) north of the town of Machynlleth.

History

Around 1830 a toll house was built at Ffridd Gate to control the south end of the turnpike road to Dolgellau – now the A487. When the Corris, Machynlleth & River Dovey Tramroad was built in 1859, it crossed the road to Llanwrin (now the B4404) and passed on the east side of the tollhouse before entering Ffridd Wood. The station, built in 1885, was on the south side of the level crossing and had a simple wooden shelter for passengers. There was no platform.

Positioning

South of the station was the railway's bridge over the Dyfi, originally a wooden trestle construction and later a three-span steel bridge. The site of the bridge is now occupied by the Millennium Bridge for walkers and cyclists, providing a short-cut to Machynlleth.

The Centre for Alternative Technology lies about a mile north of the hamlet.

External links

• The Fridd-Gate tollhouse's entry on the National Monuments Record of Wales (NMRW)'s website
• Centre for Alternative Technology
• Eco Dyfi Valley Partnership

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Machynlleth		Corris Railway		Llwyngwern