Walks from Tal-y-Cafn station
3 listed hills have a summit within 8 km of the platform at Tal-y-Cafn — the closest is Tal y Fan at 5.8 km, the highest Pen y Castell at 624 m. Distances are straight lines, not routes: this page tells you a car-free day is possible here, and the planning is still yours.
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- Station code
- TLC
- Grid reference
- SH787716
- Coordinates
- 53.22836, -3.81826
- Locality
- Tal-y-cafn
- Operator
- TfW Rail
- Entries & exits
- 2,972 · #2,481 of 2,589
- Hills in reach
- 3
Passenger figure is the ORR estimate of all entries and exits, April 2024 to March 2025 — a measure of how busy (or wonderfully quiet) the station is, not of train frequency.
The 3 hills within 8 km
Every hill from our dataset for which Tal-y-Cafn is one of the 3 nearest stations. Follow a name for the full record — heights, prominence, access rights, live summit weather and daylight.
| # | Hill | Height | Classifications | From station | Direction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tal y Fan | 610 m | HewittNuttallMarilyn+2 | 5.8 km | W |
| 2 | Foel Lwyd | 600.2 m | DeweySimm | 6.7 km | W |
| 3 | Pen y Castell | 623.5 m | Nuttall | 7.1 km | SW |
A hill 8 km away in a straight line can be a much longer day on the ground — and on rural lines the last train home leaves early and some stations are request stops with a handful of services a day. Check live times and facilities for Tal-y-Cafn before you commit, plan the route on a proper map, and give the daylight planner your real finish time.
Hill data from the Database of British & Irish Hills v18.3 (CC BY 4.0). Station position from NaPTAN (Department for Transport, OGL v3.0); passenger estimates from the Office of Rail and Road (OGL v3.0). Distances and bearings computed by OpenFell, summit to platform.
Daylight here today
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- Civil twilight ends
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Computed astronomically for the station. Walking to a timetable means walking to the light: set your turnaround with the daylight safety planner.
Plan the day
- Walking-time calculator — Naismith with terrain and fitness corrections.
- Access checker — what the land around here allows.
- Kit-list generator — packed for the forecast, not for habit.
- Tal-y-Cafn on National Rail — live departures, facilities, engineering work.
- OS Maps · Google Maps