WAW001732 WALES (1946). View of Bangor showing railway station and Friars School

The Railway Institute. A good place to get a drink on Sundays in the 1960s.

The railway station opened in 1858, and is still in use. The station served trains on the original Chester and Holyhead Railway, and from 1852 the Bangor and Carnarvon Railway which branched off the Holyhead line just west of Menai Bridge station. The lines were absorbed into the LNWR, and thence to the LMS and then BR(LMR). The Carnarvon line was closed in closed in 1970 but reopened for a while following the Britannia Tubular Bridge fire in May of that year as a diversionary route for freight trains.

Goods Shed

Steam locomotive on turntable

A5 Trunk Road - hidden below trees

Ffriddoedd Road

Menai Strait

LMS 4-6-2 in heading an express to Holyhead

Tunnel constructed on an alignment curving to the left to exit alongside the A5 Holyhead Road

LMS 2-6-4 tank engine

Locomotive depot

Steam locomotive with trucks in yard

Signalbox built into side of cutting

Local train just leaving station