Welsh station sold to Scots
NZPA-PA London A little Welsh station with one of the world’s longest names, a tonguetwisting 58 letters, has been sold by British Rail.
The station buildings at Llanfair PG, on the Isle of Anglesey, will not be dismantled and shipped to the heritage-conscious United States, as many villagers feared.
Local residents’ own bid for the station, backed by Anglesey Council, failed. James Pringle, the Scottish woollen manufacturing company, with a bid of more than £150,000 ($397,500).
The company has promised British Rail that alongside its woollens shop there will be a Welsh craft centre.
The station has long been a tourist attraction. Thousands stop to buy a platform ticket with the full name: ychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.
British Rail still owns the platforms of the station, on the London Holyhead line, and 14 trains a day will continue to call there.
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Press, 3 February 1986, Page 14
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143Welsh station sold to Scots Press, 3 February 1986, Page 14
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