Appearances can be deceptive, with what looks to be an apparently quiet rural station masking the fact that it has from 2011 sat at the nerve centre for rail operations along the entire Cambrian Coast line from Shrewsbury to Aberystwyth and Pwllheli. Opposite the old signal box is the modern day control room providing the ERTMS direct to train signalling now used all along this line, whilst to the right beyond the station building is the maintenance centre fo the entire Arriva Trains Wales class 158 fleet.
Location: Machynlleth
Original line: Newtown and Machynlleth Railway
Photographer: David Pesterfield
Contact photographer: David Pesterfield
Date: 09/06/2010
Image number: 29414