       
 River Nodwydd
Y 'Royal Charter'
Llain Abernodwydd
Saint Mary's Church
Cloth Hall
Famous People
Plas Gwyn
Mair Wyn Hughes.
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Pentraeth Station
Cliciwch yma am y fersiwn
Cymraeg
Pentraeth station was a building with a wooden platform to
it. It was not a big building and the steam trains were not big either. There were six
stations on the seven mile long line,-
Holland Arms
Ceint
Rhyd y Saint
Pentraeth
Llanbedrgoch
Traeth Coch
Benllech
The children of the navvies, the men who came to build the railway, are referred to in the
school’s log book. The headmaster, John Jones, sent many of the children of the
navvies home from school as they had a skin disease! Reference is also made to Hugh
Williams and William Davies who had permission to leave school at 14 years of age because
they had been given work building the railway for a shilling a week.
The railway was opened in 1908. It was closed to travellers in 1930 and to goods in 1950.
The rails were lifted in 1954. When the Bangor Blue buses began to run in 1927 it was far
easier to catch a bus from the street than to walk all the way to the station.
Why was the Pentraeth station not built nearer to the village? Because it would have cost
too much money to build a bridge over the river Nodwydd to get the line into the village.
As the station was on the outskirts of the village it meant that the travellers faced a
long journey up a steep hill to reach the station. It is certain that this contributed to
the end of the railway age at Pentraeth.
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