Downstream on the River Dee with the railway from Barmouth entering Llangollen, 1951
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The photograph on this page of Downstream on the River Dee with the railway from Barmouth entering Llangollen, 1951 by Ben Brooksbank as part of the Geograph project.
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Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 29 Jul 1951
View eastward towards Llangollen station on the former GWR Barmouth - Ruabon line in the days long before its closure in 1965 and its later restoration westward from Llangollen by the present-day heritage Llangollen Railway. [The bridge I was seemingly standing on seems no longer to exist?]
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