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Loading slates at Corris Railway Station, c. 1900
  • This photograph shows the horses and their keeper outside the Corris stable block. The large sliding doors gave access to the coach-house where the railway's road coaches were kept. The rails on the right were the loop that ran round the back of the main station buildings.
Corris Railway horses, at the turn of the twentieth century
Train at Corris railway station, 1948
Aberllefenni station, August 17, 1927
Llwyngwern Station, near Corris, showing the quarrymen waiting to catch the down train, c. 1900
  • To avoid the trains being cut off if the line became severed by flood water near the Dyfi bridge, they were brought down and shedded behind Machynlleth Station during 1948. Here Humpherey Humphries (driver) and Pryce Owen (guard) prepare No. 3 for the day's service on 30 July of that year.
Corris Railway's locomotive nos 3 and 4 behind Machynlleth station, 1948