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Fairbourne railway station is served by the Cambrian Coast Railway, which runs from Machynlleth to Pwllheli and operated by Arriva Trains Wales
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The railway operates over a track at gauge, using locomotives previously from the Fairbourne Railway, since that line has regauged to a smaller gauge.
The Fairbourne Railway ( Welsh: Rheilffordd y Friog ) is a gauge miniature railway running for from the village of Fairbourne on the Mid-Wales coast, alongside the beach to the end of a peninsula at Barmouth Ferry, where there is a connection with a pedestrian ferry across the Mawddach estuary to the seaside resort of Barmouth ().
There has since been considerable investment in the railway improving the reliability of the locomotives and the quality of the track, and a new attraction, the Rowen Centre, was set up at Fairbourne station.
Fairbourne and station
It will be known as Fairbourne Station ( named after Joseph Fairbourne, an early settler who operated a weigh station in the area in the late 19th century ) and will consist of approximately 40 acres, costing $ 500 million to build.
The tramway that was used to construct the Fairbourne village soon introduced passenger cars to transport people to the ferry station.
The line was sold again in 1984 to the Ellerton family and underwent dramatic changes to the infrastructure which included construction of a new station at Fairbourne and the re-gauging to 12¼ inches in 1986.
Fairbourne and is
Fairbourne is a village on the coast of Barmouth Bay to the south of the estuary of the River Mawddach in Gwynedd, surrounded by the Snowdonia National Park.
The Blue Flag beach at Fairbourne is a two mile stretch of beach, backed by steep pebble banks, which exposes a vast amount of golden sandy beaches from mid-tide level.
Although the worksplate which it has states year built as 1949, this is incorrect, and the plate was fitted by the Fairbourne Railway, not by the builder.
* Fairbourne Rights of Access Group, a group of people based in Fairbourne on the Welsh coast which is seeking to establish multi-user paths to improve access to the village
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Before the seaside resort was built the coastal area was known as Morfa Henddol, while the outcrop now occupied by the Fairbourne Hotel was called Ynysfaig.
In 1926 this locomotive was bought by the Fairbourne Miniature Railway and in 1936 it was sold to the Jaywick Miniature Railway, which ran it until 1939.
Fairbourne and Railway
Ferries sail from Barmouth to Penrhyn Point, where they connect with the narrow gauge Fairbourne Railway for the village of Fairbourne.
Like most heritage railways, the Fairbourne Railway has an active volunteer society: Fairbourne Railway Preservation Society ( formerly the Fairbourne Railway Supporter's Association ).
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The most common explanation suggests that the name was taken from the railway station in Marple, Stockport, through which Christie passed, with the alternative account that Christie took it from the home of a Marple family who lived at Marple Hall, near her sister Madge's home at Abney Hall.
* 1980 – A bomb explodes at the railway station in Bologna, Italy, killing 85 people and wounding more than 200.
The Abensberg railway station is located on the Danube Valley Railway from Regensburg to Ingolstadt.
In 2008, a former goods shed by the main railway station of Abensberg was converted into a theatre by local volunteers.
* 2008 – A EuroCity express train en-route from Kraków, Poland to Prague, Czech Republic strikes a part of a motorway bridge that had fallen onto the railroad track near Studénka railway station in the Czech Republic and derails, killing 8 people and injuring 64 others.
Also well-known and well worth seeing are the two remaining city gates, the Ponttor, one half mile northwest of the cathedral, and the Kleinmarschiertor, close to the central railway station.
Aachen's railway station, the Hauptbahnhof ( Central Station ), was constructed in 1841 at the Cologne-Aachen railway line and replaced in 1905, moving it significantly closer to the city centre.
The early 1960s and 1970s ( up until his death in 1976 ) were marked by key works in Helsinki, in particular the huge town plan for the void in centre of Helsinki adjacent to Töölö Bay and the vast railway yards, and marked on the edges by significant buildings such as the National Museum and the main railway station, both by Eliel Saarinen.
The town is served by Aberdare railway station and Aberdare bus station, opposite each other in the town centre.
One now leads to Aberdour railway station, a beautifully kept and cared for example of a traditional station, in keeping with its role of transporting at least a quarter of the village's working population to their work each day.
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