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This station is not to be confused with the Festiniog and Blaenau Railway’s (F&BR) Duffws (F&BR) station which stood some distance away on the opposite side of Church Street. During that station’s life from 1868 to 1883 passengers travelling from (say) Festiniog on the F&BR to Tan-y-Bwlch on the Festiniog would walk between the two stations, much as passengers walk between the standard gauge and narrow gauge in modern-day Blaenau Ffestiniog.       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Table of ContentsContext[edit]Station name[edit]History[edit]Station layout[edit]Closure[edit]Present day[edit]References[edit]Sources[edit]Other material[edit]External links[edit]Context[edit]The evolution of Blaenau’s passenger stations was complex, with five different railway companies providing services to the area.Station name[edit]Several sources comment on the name “Duffws”, which is not a Welsh word but a corruption. What it is a corruption of is unclear, with some sources saying it comes from “Diffwys” (meaning ‘steep slope or mountainside’) – the pronunciation of both words is similar – others saying it is related to “Diphwys” and most making no comment. The station first appeared in Bradshaw on opening in January 1866 as “Diffwys”, being changed to “Duffws” from 1867. Tickets largely used “Duffws”, though an example bearing “Diphwys” is recorded.       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4History[edit]  Ffestiniog Railway engine “Welsh Pony” at Duffws (FR) station, 1886The station opened in January 1866 for passengers to Portmadoc and points between. It joined the first steam-hauled passenger service in Britain to use tracks of less than standard gauge, with the line carrying a quarter of a million people in its first year of operation.The previous year the FR had opened Dinas (FR) station further from the centre of the town. Trains from Portmadoc alternated between the two stations,[8] but Duffws was better sited for passenger traffic, so Dinas closed to passengers in 1870.Station layout[edit]The site and its buildings changed over the years. The initial station was built almost at a right angle to the running lines, with its tracks forming a very short branch adjacent to the north side of Church Street. In 1877 a new station building was erected northeast of the original, aligned with the running lines. Changes were made to tracks in later years,[10] but the station building remains today.Both stations’ platform was almost nominal, as the carriages were very low to the ground no height was needed. There were two running lines through the station: the “Passenger Line” which ran past the platform, with the other for goods and workmen’s trains. The other two lines visible on photographs were a run-round loop for passenger locomotives and a siding.Closure[edit]The station closed throughout 1923\u20134, then closed for good in 1931, the last train having called the previous Autumn. The service was cut back to terminate at the joint GWR\/FR station. Slate traffic continued past the station building.The FR closed progressively, the final axe falling in 1946, though quarries continued to use the line through the station to get ever-diminishing quantities of product to the exchange sidings at the LMS station. The station itself was eventually fenced off and its surrounds landscaped to become a car park.[15] This process continued until 1962 with the eventual removal of all lines through the Duffws site when the quarries either closed or switched to using lorries to take slates to customers.Present day[edit]  The preserved station buildingToday, the station is in use for public toilets and is also a listed building.References[edit]Sources[edit]Boyd, James I.C. (1975) [1959]. The Festiniog Railway 1800 – 1974; Vol. 1 – History and Route. The British Narrow Gauge Railway. Blandford: The Oakwood Press. ISBN\u00a0978-0-85361-167-7. OCLC\u00a02074549. B1A.Boyd, James I.C. (1988) [1972]. Narrow Gauge Railways in South Caernarvonshire \u2013 Volume 1. Headington: The Oakwood Press. ISBN\u00a0978-0-85361-365-7. OCLC\u00a020417464.Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st\u00a0ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN\u00a0978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC\u00a060251199. OL\u00a011956311M.Jones, Ivor Wynne; Hatherill, Gordon (1977). Llechwedd and other Ffestiniog Railways. Blaenau Ffestiniog: Quarry Tours Ltd. ISBN\u00a0978-0-9502895-9-5.Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett’s Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st\u00a0ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN\u00a0978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC\u00a022311137.Neale, Andrew (1991). Welsh Narrow Gauge Railways: From Old Picture Postcards. Brighton: Plateway Press. ISBN\u00a0978-1-871980-08-0.Prideaux, J.D.C.A. (1982). The Welsh narrow gauge railway: A pictorial history (2nd\u00a0ed.). Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN\u00a0978-0-7153-8354-4.Quick, Michael (2009) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (4th\u00a0ed.). Oxford: Railway & Canal Historical Society. ISBN\u00a0978-0-901461-57-5. OCLC\u00a0612226077.Richards, Alun John (2001). The Slate Railways of Wales. Llanrwst: Gwasg Carreg Gwalch. ISBN\u00a0978-0-86381-689-5.Southern, D. W. (1995). Bala Junction to Blaenau Ffestiniog. Scenes from the Past, Railways of North Wales. Stockport: Foxline Publishing. ISBN\u00a0978-1-870119-34-4. No. 25).Stretton, M.J. (1999). Ffestiniog Railway in Camera: One Hundred Years 1871-1971. Penistone: Challenger Publications. ISBN\u00a0978-1-899624-40-9.Welbourn, Nigel (2000). Lost Lines: British Narrow Gauge. Shepperton: Ian Allan Publishing. ISBN\u00a0978-0-7110-2742-8.Other material[edit]Butter, Roland (April 2003).  Smith, Martin (ed.). “The Festiniog in Light Railway Days”. Railway Bylines. 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