Qualla: Lôn Eifion https://qualla.com/lon-eifion en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/y/lon-eifion-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Lôn Eifion https://qualla.com/lon-eifion Lôn Eifion: Introduction https://qualla.com/lon-eifion/ Photo credit Mat Fascione, CC BY-SA 2.0. The trains stopped running through Caernarfon in 1964, and the rails came up. For decades the corridor sat quiet - twenty kilometres of perfectly graded earthworks slicing south from the old county town through farmland and woodland toward the coast at Afon Wen. Then, with the kind of pragmatic afterthought the British do well, somebody pointed out that what made an excellent railway also makes an excellent cycle path. Lôn Eifion is the result: a flat, almost effortless ride along the bones of the Caernarvonshire Railway, part of a 400-kilometre Welsh National Cycle Route called Lôn Las Cymru.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/y/lon-eifion-wp/gcky-l-n-eifion-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Lôn Eifion: The Slate That Built the Track https://qualla.com/lon-eifion/ Photo credit Mat Fascione, CC BY-SA 2.0. Running alongside the Lôn Eifion for some of its distance is an even older corridor - the trackbed of the Nantlle Tramway, opened in the 1820s. Horse-drawn trams once hauled slate down this route from the great Penrhyn and Dyffryn Nantlle quarries to the port at Caernarfon, where...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/y/lon-eifion-wp/gcky-l-n-eifion-the-slate-that-built-the-track.mp3 0:06 2 full Lôn Eifion: Caernarfon to Llanwnda: Sharing the Tracks https://qualla.com/lon-eifion/ Photo credit Mat Fascione, CC BY-SA 2.0. The northern end of the route is Caernarfon itself - the medieval walled town with Edward I's castle still glowering down on the harbour. The first stretch of Lôn Eifion runs alongside an active railway, the Welsh Highland Railway, a narrow-gauge heritage line that has been gradu...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/y/lon-eifion-wp/gcky-l-n-eifion-caernarfon-to-llanwnda-sharing-the-tracks.mp3 0:06 3 full Lôn Eifion: Through Groeslon to the Open Country https://qualla.com/lon-eifion/ Photo credit Mat Fascione, CC BY-SA 2.0. From Llanwnda the path crosses the A487/A499 roundabout and dives south through the village of Groeslon, passing the Tafarn Pennionyn before slipping behind Inigo Jones Slate Works - a working slate fabrication business that still produces gravestones, fireplaces, and architectur...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/y/lon-eifion-wp/gcky-l-n-eifion-through-groeslon-to-the-open-country.mp3 0:06 4 full Lôn Eifion: Where the Trail Ends https://qualla.com/lon-eifion/ Photo credit Mat Fascione, CC BY-SA 2.0. At Bryncir, the cycle path leaves the old railway corridor and heads westerly up through a farm and onto single-track road, eventually dropping south into Criccieth - a small coastal town with its own ruined castle perched on a rocky headland. Walkers, rather than cyclists, can p...

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