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Flashback on railways in North Wales

Nostalgic photos relating to trains and stations.

Iolo Griffiths

Iolo Griffiths, InYourArea Community

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Flashback on railways in North Wales

The Great Western Railway Manor class 4-6-0 steam locomotive Foxcote Manor departs from Llangollen, passing the River Dee. Circa 1955.

Valley station in Anglesey, circa 1920
A passenger train leaving Bala Station on the Bala-Blaenau Ffestiniog line, in December 1959
Llanfairfechan Station staff in 1909
Combined goods and passenger train in Llanymynech, taken around 1928. This unusual train consisted of a Ford bus and a one-ton truck on railway wheels, which replaced the more conventional steam engine
The engine Earl of Powis on the Welshpool to Llanfair railway
In February 1985 the 88-year-old signal box in Llandudno Junction was dismantled to be replaced by a modern, push button control panel. 
Driver Lee Milverton, Guard Dick Jones, and fireman Gwillym Morgan of the Vale of Rheidol line from Aberystwyth to Devil's Bridge pictured in June 1968, when the line received a reprieve

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