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2017 September - End of peak events and fishplate oiling

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Peter Sam held his last party of the year – a very busy day up at Abergynolwyn.

Over the Bank Holiday weekend, the Saturday trains were packed with people heading to the annual Abergynolwyn Show held in the field below the station.

During the evening late night trains ran up the valley where Abergynolwyn was the place to be.  Beer, barbeque and live music on a lovely summer’s eve… a perfect way to end the day.  As the night drew in, Chris Cade (an actor and storyteller from York), held performances of the ‘The Signalman’ by Charles Dickens (1866), a twenty minute spine-chilling railway ghost story!

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