page_title: Maespoeth Junction
section_title: Preservation
hierarchical_section_title: Maespoeth Junction / Preservation
caption_attribution_description: English: Maespoeth yard on the Corris Railway
context_page_description: Maespoeth Junction is a railway location to the south of Corris in Gwynedd. It lies in the historic county of Merionethshire/Sir Feirionnydd, in the valley of the Afon Dulas. It is known principally as a railway junction on the historic Corris Railway, and is also the site of a small number of residential dwellings.
context_section_description: From 1966 onwards a group of volunteers has been working on the preservation of the Corris Railway's infrastructure. In 1981 the Maespoeth Junction site was returned to railway ownership under the auspices of the Corris Railway Society and the engine shed now once again serves its original purpose as a home for the railway's locomotives, and as its engineering headquarters. The engine shed is a Grade II listed building, and successfully attracted a large Heritage Lottery Fund grant to fund re-roofing of both the engine shed and the associated S&T shed.
  The original S&T shed to the south of the engine shed also survives, now being used as a volunteer's mess and as a small museum. Originally this building was separate from the engine shed, but the space between the two has now been roofed to provide a toilet block.
  The original signal box did not survive, but a new signal box was built in the 1990s on the same site as the original. This now controls points and signals around the junction.
  In 2009 a large new carriage shed, largely built by volunteers from the Corris Railway Society, was opened on the east side of the site. This building is now the headquarters of the railway's passenger carriage construction programme, as well as being a base for the overhauling of freight and engineering vehicles.
caption: The station yard at Maespoeth Junction, with the replacement signal box in the background.
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