Station Name: MENAI BRIDGE
40126 passes Menai Bridge Station on an up service on the 14th May 1977. Although it appears that the up main platform survives, it was in fact a new concrete structure built for loading cattle onto railway trucks during the closure of the Britannia Bridge between 1970 and 1972. Just visible are the bases of the posts for the fencing used to corral the cattle. 105,000 cattle were transhipped here between November 1970 and January 1972.
Photo by Dave Plimmer from his Main Line Railways of North Wales web site  Home Page
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