Traeth Mawr


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Traeth Mawr literally means Big Beach, a name appropriate for the wide-open levels of farmland reclaimed from the sea. Alongside the railway near here, a sand-built embankment was built by James Creassy in about 1700 as an early land reclamation works.

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	The new place-name signboard has been carefully created in authentic WHR '20s style. There is no station at Traeth Mawr, simply a loop for the locos to run-round. Geoff Jenkins 752x500, 96KiB (large file: 3008x2000, 1.6MiB )
	Prince stands at the headshunt with the still-vacant trackbed off into the distance on the right. Geoff Jenkins 752x500, 91KiB (large file: 3008x2000, 1.4MiB )
	On the day that Traeth Mawr was officially opened. the inaugural train was hauled by Gelert and Prince. Prince, on the left, has just run round the train and is already re-coupled. Gelert also runs around and is seen paused alongside for the photographers. Geoff Jenkins 752x500, 101KiB (large file: 3008x2000, 1.5MiB )
	The inaugural train leaves Traeth Mawr - the first time since 1936 that a passenger train has come this way. Geoff Jenkins 752x500, 89KiB (large file: 3008x2000, 1.4MiB )

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