Extra Travel Info
for Snowdonia Beano
Travel Updates | Maps
| Bus Timetables | Taxis
Our Snowdonia Beano venue is in the village of Nantlle
(pronounced Nant-thla, or Nant-cla will do). Road
signs are in both Welsh and English. The Welsh for station is Gorsaf.
(more Welsh pronunciation)
Travel
Updates
None – if there are
any changes, they will appear in this box.
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Maps
We provide our own specially-drawn route maps which
should be all you need. Our maps show the route with directions
at each junction and warnings etc. Plus lots of other info. However,
if you really want an Ordnance Survey map, you can buy these maps
from Amazon.co.uk...
Landranger Series: Scale of 1:50
000 (1.25 inches to 1 mile, 2 cm to 1 km). These maps show much
more detail and are the ones to get if you really want to see
some detail. Nantlle is on the left edge of the Snowdonia
& Caernarfon map and on the right edge of the Lleyn
Peninsula map.
Travel Maps Series: Scale of 1:175
000 (1 inch to 2.75 miles, 1 cm to 1.75 km). You could get by
with this map.
Clicking on the maps below takes you to Amazon.co.uk.
There you can click on the "LOOK INSIDE!" link (and
follow through to the 3rd page) to see the coverage of each map
– very useful.
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Bus
from Bangor to Nantlle
Catch Express Motors bus #1 or #1A from
Bangor railway station to Caernarfon bus station, and change to
the Express Motors bus #1N (or #1C) to Nantlle. Ask
the driver to put you off by the phone box in the first half of
Nantlle village (opposite the "Plas Baladeulyn, Trigonos"
driveway) – the offical bus stop is 100 meters before the
phone box.
2011 Winter
Timetables
These times will change in May, so you will need
to check them for yourself. Updated timetables should be available
on the Gwynedd
Council website. Bus timetables can be download from Gwynedd
Council, Public Transport page (they keep changing their page
urls, so you may have to for it). This is the info I have now
(11 December 2011):-
Bangor to Caernarfon:-
Operated by: Express Motors. Number: #1
and #1A. From: Bangor railway station (stop H).
Departs Bangor station: 13.56, 14.22, 14.56,
15.22, 15.56, 16.56, 17.17 (X32) and 18.02.
Arrives Caernarfon (stop A): about 24 minutes later.
There is also the #5 and #X5 (operated by Arriva)
from Bangor town centre (Stop A) about every 10 to 20 minutes.
Caernarfon to Nantlle:-
Operated by: Express Motors. Number: #1N.
From: Caernarfon bus station (stop C).
Departs Caernarfon: 15.00, 17.10 (#1C),
17.35, 19.15
Arrives Nantlle: 15.37, 17.45, 18.00, 19.40
There is also a Express Motors (#1C
or 1N) bus from Caernarfon bus station (stop C) which only
goes as far as Bro Silyn housing estate, which is about 1.5
miles before Nantlle (see map on back of paper info sheet):-
Departs Caernarfon: 16.10, 16.35, 18.35, 22.15 (last bus).
Arrives Bro Silyn: 16.33, 16.56, 19.56, 22.35.
Plus the 20.15 bus (#1N) only goes as far as Talysarn
(arrives 20.35).
Do check this info for yourself. The info I
have is from Gwynedd Councils' timetable
1N/1C (url may change).
Phone numbers for bus companies:-
Express Motors: 01286 881 108.
Arriva: 0844 800 44 11.
Traveline (public transport info):-
Website: www.traveline.org.uk
Phone: 0870 608 2 608
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Taxis
to Nantlle
Trigonos (our venue) has an arrangement with Ivan
(01286 881590) and Huw (01286 882323) to collect
guests from Bangor railway station. Ivan and Huw are based in
Penygroes, 2 miles from Trigonos, so have to travel about 16 miles
to Bangor. To get the cheaper rate you need to phone them and
arrange for them to meet you at the front of Bangor station
(not in the cab rank next to platform 1). They can carry bikes
if asked in adance.
Most of the other taxis that wait at Bangor station
are considerably more expensive.
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Spare info sheets are available to download
– contact us for the url.
Links to other travel info and rail timetables are on
our main Travel Page.
We also have a quick guide to Pronouncing
Welsh Place Names.
Please bookmark this page in case you want to use it again.
Return to the Snowdonia
Beano description page.

Bicycle Beano Cycling Holidays
– green holidays since 1982
© Bicycle Beano Cycling Holidays™ updated
11 December 2011 | www.bicycle-beano.co.uk
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Wales, UK | Phone 01982 560471
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