Cambrian Resorts on the shores of Cardigan Bay for Health and Pleasure : guide book : Cambrian Railways : Oswestry : 1913 : map

            The Cambrian Railways had been formed in 1864 as an amalgamation of a number of railway lines and, over time, as more lines were constructed and other railways absorbed, the company eventually covered a broad swathe of mid-Wales. To the north the system bordered that of the London & North Western Railway and to the south the Great Western. It was merged with the latter at Grouping in 1923.

This 1913 guide book sells a very traditional tourists view of Wales both on the cover and on the splendid centre page map of "Cambria"; "where sea and mountains meet" and "The Land of the Golden Gorse" spread around Cardigan Bay. It shows the string of mostly coastal resorts served by the company's trains including Aberystwyth, Aberdovey/Aberdyfi, Towyn/Tywyn, Barmouth/Abermaw, Harlech, Portmadoc/Porthmadog, Criccieth/Cricieth and Pwllheli. Various connections to "Toy Railways", aka narrow guage lines, are also shown and these include the Festiniog/Ffestiniog, the Corris and the Rheidol Valley line, the latter owned by the Cambrian. 

The bulk of the lines shown on this map still survive unlike the mass closures that affected large parts of Wales in later decades and indeed the "toy railways" still exist as tourist attractions; the Little Trains of Wales.

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