Although today's station is located within a wooded gorge with only few houses and a riverside hotel nearby, it was at the centre of a vibrant community including a post office and Methodist chapel in the Victorian period.

The chairman of the Llangollen and Corwen Railway lived just up the road at Plas Berwyn and an 1861 agreement announced: Berwyn station was built with a single right-handed curved side platform, station master's house, waiting room and booking office.

As the station was too remote to be supplied by coal gas, its interiors were decorated with elaborate oil and paraffin lamps.

Milk churns would arrive at Berwyn every day from the nearby farms at Llantysilio for transport to the creamery at Corwen.

During the First World War, local teenage conscripts wrote their names and messages in indelible pencil on the wall of a pedestrian tunnel beneath Berwyn station in 1915.

The station received a full passenger service in March 1986, with a formal opening ceremony being performed by the Duke of Westminster on 13 June 1986.

This unusual cantilevered platform at the western end of the station was dismantled in the late 1950s due to its deterioration and a lack of passengers.

Special souvenir Edmondson tickets are still issued to passengers from Berwyn's booking office in the traditional way.

During the Victorian period, the station boasted a separate waiting room for men and women travelling first class, with comfortable seats and a fire in winter.

He sold tickets, handled parcels, tended to the station's coal fires and ensured passengers were safe.

Although the house came with the job, the station master had to pay rent to the GWR; in 1924 this cost 7 shillings and sixpence a week.

The first was built by mine owner Exuperius Pickering who needed to get his coal across the river to deliver it to Corwen and Bala.

In the 1870s, a replacement bridge was built by Henry Robertson (the railway's engineer) and this lasted until February 1928, when an exceptionally heavy flood washed it away.

The Horseshoe Falls, built by Thomas Telford to act as a feeder for the Llangollen Canal, is a 10-minute walk from the station.