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There is very little left of the original Bryngwyn station today which would have stood in the middle of fields near a farm where the station takes its name. The station consisted of a typical NWNGR station building, Signal Box, and a siding connecting a goods shed. Beyond the station the line was connected to the Slate Quarries of Moel Tryfan.The trackbed of line from Tryfan Junction to Bryngwyn has been purchased by the Festiniog Railway Co., but there are no immediate plans to re-open it. In 2011 the trackbed became a public footpath, although with conditions that this will not impede reopening of the branch line in the future.
At Bryngwyn a 1 in 10 balanced inclined plane owned by the Welsh Highland Railway led to an upper plateau from where quarry owned lines radiated to several slate quarries in the Moel Tryfan and Nantlle area. Although slate traffic continued as required until final closure in 1936, passenger trains ceased to operate on the branch in 1916.
The Station name board is preserved in the Talyllyn Narrow Gauge Railway Museum in Tywyn.
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