Our first holiday away as a couple was exploring the
Cambrian coast line between Aberystwyth and Pwllheli. We stayed at Borth,
Corris, Llanbedr and Harlech youth hostels between the 26th and 30th
July 1969. Chris was sixteen and she had made her own mini dress. There would
not have been much of an outlay on the amount of fabric required. She had
recently won the needlework prize at her girls’ grammar school.
Corris was the only hostel that we could not reach by train,
so we took our haversacks on the bus. It was in the old village school building
and it looked quite forbidding and spooky. Overnight, it was pitch black, the wind
blew through the rafters, the fittings creaked and Chris was the only one in
the ladies’ dormitory. She has never forgiven me for strictly adhering to the
separate dormitories rule. After all, I did not want to get kicked out of the
YHA.
At Harlech station, waiting for the train home, on 30/7/69.
A DMU heading for Machynlleth, in the southbound platform at
Barmouth station, on 27/9/69.
An early morning pick-up freight enters Llanbedr station [then
known as Talwrn Bach] behind a Brush Sulzer Type 2, on 29/7/69.
The DMU seen at Barmouth has already left the southbound platform, which is the other (preceding) side of the road crossing. The platform behind the DMU was the excursion/bay platform that had its own dead end track. What is visible is the access / end loading ramp. Eddie
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