We were very glad that the trains communicate with the ferry operators and adjust schedules…read moreaccordingly. In this regard things on our trip went very smoothly which otherwise could have been disastrous. However, the trains were well packed and didn't allow much room for luggage storage. The wifi on board was very problematic and not very intuitive. The dining car was adequate at best. At the end of the day, they got us where we needed to go although the comfort level could be improved significantly.

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!

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.

Not to be confused with Volley Railway Station which is a Tennis venue…read more This is a tiny little railway station in Wales that has typical Smokestacks coming out of the top of it and the usual white and brown-looking stone house on one side of the platform, as well as level crossings right on the end of the platform, so it's definitely a very North Wales type station. It's beautiful and memorable despite the factory right next to the platform, which is rather unfortunate.

On one level the service provider is good. It works. The staff on dockside are friendly, helpful…read moreand darn decent folks. What bothers me and niggles at me are a few things. First and historically I remember still how almost all of the Irish workforce were shafted by the CEO who enriched himself and shareholders doing so. He remains at the helm near 18 years later but it's really not Irish Ferries, it's a ferry service that calls into Ireland and Wales. It's not registered in Ireland nor Wales for that matter. Its image is Irish. It flies the Irish flag but if it flew the flag of the majority of the workers who staff it then the flag would be the Lithuanian or Polish flag. This brings me to the next niggle. There's no cead mile failte aboard. The staff reflect many low paid disposable workers with little employment benefits, they are perfunctory not friendly and I don't blame them one bit. They have as much loyalty to the CEO as he has to them. None. It shows too, understandably so when he pays himself €3 million a year and owns shares valued at €143 million. The food offered aboard is over priced and poor. The coffee and tea are grim; there's no proper espresso machines aboard just push a button contraptions. They even charge for WiFi unlike Stena. You get 20 minutes for free then you are nickel and dimed. We all know too that we are being fleeced as it's one of the most expensive stretches of water on earth to sail on mile for mile so at least the CEO only shafted the loyal Irish workers once but he shafts loyal customers every day.

Want a raging high?!!!! As in high sea, raging waters?!…read more Dublin Swift Fast Ferry from Holyhead, Wales to Dublin, IE. My s.o. at the time, from Anglesey, and my cousins, studying at Trinity... perfect reasons to visit with his fam, and to see my Chinese Irish cousins ... and what a perfect way to do so too. I've been on the those honking ferries before... Hong Kong, Seattle to Bainbridge....but this beauty kicked up the class, the clean, the speed, the everything for me. In under 2 hours, we sailed across the Irish sea in complete style, comfort, and luxury. I highly recommend this mode of transportation, where one can eat, shop, relax in complete spaciousness. The tables resemble restaurant ones, so spread your stuff out.... and relax with a cold drink! B&B'ing it the night before, the way to go if early AM departure. But not a lot of options out there, so take care!

Superb service! Would not use anyone else if in Abersoch. The driver phoned to let me know he was…read morewaiting outside, exactly as promised. 7 passengers in our group including young children so larger taxi was perfect for our needs. They also picked us up a couple days later from Abersoch to go back to Bangor train station and again the service was impeccable. Can not recommend this company highly enough. Great to finally have a firm that does exactly what it says it will do. 5 stars from me !!

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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.

Not just a railway station.... but a Rhylway Station…read more This is part of one of the most beautiful parts of North Wales, which is really a tourist region and gets a lot of tourist traffic, and people from England especially, mainly. It's on the Crewe to Holyhead coastal line, and it's definitely a coastal resort station. They have barriers to stop people jumping the railway, which a lot of North Wales stations don't. It's right in the town so there's a lot of beautiful old housing and a gorgeous old bridge. It's definitely one of the prettiest stations in North Wales that's for sure. And it has the typical smokestacks coming out of the top of the Station House like all the North Wales stations seem to have.

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?