Not to be confused with Unfair Pwll Railway Station which is named after a very unfair Pwll,…read morewhatever a Pwll is. This is a cute little railway station on the North Wales Coast Line, right along the track from London to Holyhead (which is basically London to Dublin if you think about it). It was closed down for five years in the 60s because of a horrible fire, but it's back now. It has platforms on both sides and a lovely old white and brown brick house that reminds me of a pub on the main platform. It also has a cute signal box as well. It's definitely a very pretty town, and one of my favourite things about its station it is this famous sign which has the full name of the city, a very very long name, the longest on record I think, and for this sign alone it has to get 5 stars, as it's one of the most famous tourist attractions in Wales.

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch: firstly, thank goodness for Copy &…read morePaste! Secondly, with a name like this I HAD to check the place out! It's one of those "things to do before you die" places. Some people choose to go to the Amazon, others to the Sahara desert or exploring Asia... it just so happens that I chose a sleepy village in north west Wales. The train station is the main attraction of the village with tourists such as myself coming from unbelievable distances to look at a sign. Amazing when you think about it in principle, a little sad when you've done it and are reflecting on a long day out! Still, there are some great Facebook photo opportunities. Within the grounds of the station is a mini art gallery type thing (basically a room with some random pretty things to make deflated tourists feel like they've done a number of activities). When I was there there were a couple of funky guitars on show with some pictures of Wales. Not a bad addition to the place but not much to shout about. Outside is a big car park so you can pull up and see the station. The station itself is operational and runs trains to Birmingham. Unusually it is a request stop so when you see a train coming you have to put your arm out like you would a bus. Opposite the station is a small shopping centre (more like a department store) where you can buy Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch related memorabilia as well as anything they can stick a Welsh flag on. The locals speak Welsh as a first language but do revert to English as I'm sure they see a lot of non Welsh tourists. I found them to be very friendly and helpful when needed. Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch Station is a place which is best shared with friends and is best included in a larger selection of activities as opposed to being the core one. Once you've seen the big sign and taken a picture, there isn't much to it!

Not to be confused with Unfair PG Railway Station which is named after a very child-friendly movie…read morethat was unfairly given a PG rating. This is a cute little railway station on the North Wales Coast Line, right along the track from London to Holyhead (which is basically London to Dublin if you think about it). It was closed down for five years in the 60s because of a horrible fire, but it's back now. It has platforms on both sides and a lovely old white and brown brick house that reminds me of a pub on the main platform. It also has a cute signal box as well. It's definitely a very pretty town, and one of my favourite things about its station it is this famous sign which has the full name of the city, a very very long name, the longest on record I think, and for this sign alone it has to get 5 stars, as it's one of the most famous tourist attractions in Wales.

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, or Llanfair P.G. as it is more easily…read moreknown (and said), is famous for having the longest place name in the UK. It also holds the record for the railway station with the longest name in the world, and its web-site now holds the record for the longest valid url on the web, with the name of the upper village (see below). The translation into English is: "Saint Mary's Church in the hollow of the white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the Church of St. Tysilio of the red cave". The village was probably only known as Llanfairpwll until the 1800s, although some references include the longer Llanfairpwllgwyngyll. However, according to local legend, either a local tailor or the local Vicar decided that lengthening the name would be a good marketing ploy for tourism, tapping into the newly burgeoning tourist trade for visiting the Snowdonia area. And so the longer version came about. A crazy idea, but boy, has it worked. The railway station, opened in 1848, adopted the longer version on its name-boards, although timetables and destination boards have always shown 'LlanfairPG'. I was taken to the station as a child, and bought a platform ticket with the name spelled out in full (which I still have, of course). The station is now a James Pringle Weavers woollen shop, and this has become the main stopping point for tourists in the village. There is a wide range of tourist momentos, of course, including the inevitable T-shirts and mugs. The web-site has a wonderful facility to teach you how to say the word, breaking down the Welsh vowel and consonant sounds into easy chunks, and you can hear it spoken, too. Apparently - and this is new to me - the upper village has the name, "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogochuchaf", the suffix '-uchaf' being Welsh for upper. But, in my view, that's being silly. Does this also qualify as the longest place name on Qype?

Where there's a pwll there's a way…read more I prefer owls to pwls, because they're mroe of a hoot. And this place is heavenly, but it's also a little pwll.... heli. This is a little station for the little town of... I can't pronounce it... which is a coastal town on the peninsula north of Aberystwyth on the Welsh Coast. It hasn't been used very much lately, and has a nice little Station House and looks quite new and different to a lot of the other stations in Wales. The little station house looks kind of like somebody's house, like a residence. It's a nice part of the country and pretty remote, but it does need a station and it's great that it has one. It has been around for a long time and is larger than you would expect, at least in some portions of the station such as the house itself. Now I have to leave, my pwll heli... copter's here.

Hey I just met you And this is crazy…read moreBut here's my number So Colwyn Bay me? This is a cute little station that is bigger than you'd expect, and is right along fast tracks that go to Llandudno and places like that. It's funny to see that the Welsh name for this station is something that is romantic and means something in modern slang. It's a well sheltered and very typically Northern rail station, despite not having the signature smokestacks that a lot of the stations in these parts do have. It used to have them until quite recently, and was gorgeous, but they redesigned it and that took a little bit of the charm away from the amazing station.

Colwyn Bay railway station lies on the London-Holyhead railway line and has direct links to amongst…read moreother places Manchester, Cardiff, Birmingham, Chester and Crewe (in addition to London and Holyhead). There are two platforms, platform 1 which is nearest the entrance is for trains heading west and platform 2 is for trains heading east. This isn't a station where you'll have to spend any time searching for the right platform. The station is located in the town centre and has it's own pay and display carpark. Facilities are somewhat basic. At the entrance is a manned ticket office and also a ticket machine. This machine comes in handy when there's an OAP at the counter buying a return to Inverness via Bournemouth (I don't know how they always manage to arrive sixty seconds before I do!). There is sometimes an issue with ticket machines in that they can't offer advice which means passengers may unnecessarily purchase an expensive peak time ticket when they could have bought a cheaper off peak ticket. This isn't a problem in Colwyn Bay as most trains, at least all the ones I've ever caught, seem to be classed as off peak regardless of what time of day you travel. Platform 1 has a small enclosed waiting room and also ladies and gents toilets which I've never needed to use so I can't comment on their cleanliness. Platform 2 in contrast just has a few benches, if you're heading east and don't wait to sit outdoors you'll need head back over the footbridge and wait across the tracks. There is a room on platform 2 that may once have been a waiting room but judging by the grime on the windows it hasn't been opened for decades. Catering facilities comprise a vending machine in the corner of the ticket office but as the station is in the town centre there are cafes, takeaways and convenience stores within a few minutes walk.

If you have swollen Glans, then you might need to go to the hospital. If so, Conwy go together?…read more I'm afraid of some things, but I'm not afraid of this station because it's absolutely beautiful, and it's located right by the water. In fact, it has one of the prettiest views of any station, even though it's only a tiny little place. You can almost dive into the water from the platform. It only has one platform and it looks over the beautiful landscape and water and ports, with the mountains in the background. It really doesn't get much more beautiful than that at all.

I want to see my Bae-now. Not my Blae-nau. But that's okay…read more This is a little station with odd-looking platforms and also a beautiful Narrow Gauge platform that was for the quarries and the mines. It's part of a slate mining town in the northwest of Wales, which is what this whole region is famous for. It's cool how they have the two different types of trains stopping at the same station. I've honestly never seen that before. That's why I gave the star rating of 5, which is a little bit more than I would otherwise, because it is just so unique in that regard, and quite different to anything else I've seen.

Llanfair is kinda Unfair if you ask me. Unfairly stacked against much more amazing railway stations…read morearound North Wales. This is a tiny little station with a tiny little bridge 50 miles west of Chester in the UK. It's on the line from Crewe to Holyhead, so it gets a lot of trains coming through here, although a lot of them don't stop. They only have a little stone shelter on each side of the track, and it's only a request stop. There's no tickets whatsoever here. You have to buy it from the person on the train, or you have to buy it before you travel. There used to be beautiful little buildings right here along the tracks but not so much anymore.

I'd much rather attend Betws-Y Coed than Betws-Y All-Men's. I mean, can you blame me?…read more If you are a Coed then this is the station for you. In the heart of the real Wales, up in the mountains in the middle of nowhere, this is one of the most beautiful towns and one of the most beautiful stations. It's old and stone and gray and set against the beautiful lush green and blue mountains. There really aren't many Railway stations this beautiful anywhere in the world. It feels like heaven pretty much. There's no way on Earth that it could ever not get five stars to be honest with you. It's also close to Snowdonia National Park, and a great place for tourists, and it even has its own little Station Cafe as well. It's so perfectly preserved from when it opened which was way back in 1868. This is actually my favourite station in Wales and it probably will be yours too.

Not to be confused with Klandidknow, which is the answer to the question of whether the Klan knew…read morethey were not Christians but basically the Devil's minions. Yes, the Klan-did-know. This is the busiest station in North Wales, and one of the reasons for that is because this is where you would change trains if you wanted to go to Llandudno, which is one of the most beautiful cities, hence the name of this station. LJ also provides trains into other parts of Wales other than going along the coast. So for this reason it's in a great location and gets a lot of traffic. However the station itself isn't as beautiful as a lot of the others in North Wales, partly because it's here to serve a purpose more than it is to look pretty, and is nowhere near town. I still really like it, though I've used this station on so many occasions now that I'm a bit bored of it, and I'm sure I will continue to use it and appreciate it in the future.

Llandudno Junction is situated on the Chester-Holyhead railway line, and is the junction for the…read morebranches northwards to Llandudno and south on the Conwy Valley line to Blaenau Ffestiniog. The original station opened in 1858 as the junction for Llandudno, and became the junction for the Conwy Valley line in 1863 (initially to Llanrwst, later extended to Blaenau Ffestiniog). The station was rebuilt in substantially enlarged form in 1897, but rationalised in 1968. Today the station has a mixture of through services to Llandudno, Bangor and Holyhead, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Chester, Birmingham, Manchester, Cardiff and London Euston. It has a small refreshment room, ticket office, toilets, car park and is also served by local buses with a long bus shelter at the front. Passenger usage in 2010-11 was just over 300,000 a year.