Rail Walks in Wales
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This line runs from Llandudno on the North Wales Coast, through Snowdonia to Blaenau Ffestiniog. Linear and circular walks, run by Conwy Valley and North West Wales Coast Line Community Rail Partnership.
Created by steering group member Steve Melia, this page includes downloadable gpx files for station-to-station walks in a wide radius around Bristol, including several in South Wales. See also this article about a longer walk around the Llyn peninsula in North Wales.
Heart of Wales Line
- Station to station walks
Heart of Wales Line
- Short circular walks
A long-distance footpath runs along this line from Shrewsbury to Llanelli. This site, run by Heart of Wales Community Rail Partnership, has gpx files of station-to-station walks along the whole line as well as short circular walks available too.
We organise free guided walks every Saturday from railway stations along ALL of the lines which radiate from Shrewsbury. In addition to the Heart of Wales line we have walks from the Marches line, generally from stations to Hereford but as far as Abergavenny in the summer; the Shrewsbury to Chester line and beyond along the North Wales Coast and on the Cheshire lines; the Shrewsbury-Crewe line and the Shrewsbury to Wolverhampton line. Rail Rambles is not a membership club.
It was established in 1989 specifically to encourage people to use rail to access the countryside or walking rather than to use cars. All of the walks are guided and are freely open to the general public. Anyone can come on the walks shown on our programme simply by catching the train shown (departure times are shown as from Shrewsbury).
We have a library of some 130 walks undertaken previously either circular from a station or linear between stations. Generally the walks are between 6 and 10 miles long. For health and safety reasons we have two leaders for every walk who recce the route together shortly before the walk is due to take place and who undertake a risk assessment.
This site, run by Transport for Wales, includes descriptive information about walks from railway stations in different parts of Wales.