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West Coast (of Wales) - railway and stations in pictures

Archive - Originally posted on "The Horse's Mouth" - 2013-07-04 12:17:49 - Graham Ellis

I've taken the opportunity of being away on holiday to use the trains on the Welsh coast. In many ways things are different here to the TransWilts, but there are some similarities too to how it is - or rather how it should be. For here you have a pretty well filled train shuttling up and down every 2 hours, calling at stations with are for the most part well cared for. And connecting into other local bus and train services operating to other more remove spots and tourist trips.

A few random pictures - I'm not going to tell you which station is which though, as I'm setting that as a quiz on the First Great Western Coffee Shop to see how the members there get along. I suspect there are one or two who will quickly and accurately be able to name every station. And there will be one of two wondering why I posted the quiz there, as it's not Great Western territory. Mind you - it used to be Great Western territory. Early in 20th Century, the Cambrian Railway was taken over by the Great Western Railway, and it remained a part of that until 1948.

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