‘Wales to the World’
We are undergoing our biggest transformation in decades, to turn our station into a 1930’s Great Western -style station with the help of a £1.6 million investment from Visit Wales.
An artist’s impression of the new 1930s-style station
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itled “Wales to the World” it will see the current terminus at Park Avenue, Aberystwyth transformed into a Great Western Railway style station suitable for the modern tourist together with the creation of a multifunction display and entertainment facility within our former steam locomotive shed. Alongside these visitors focused developments, a new carriage storage shed will be built allowing the priceless collection of historic railway carriages to be stored in a protected environment and aid their long term conservation. For many years we have been working with Visit Wales to achieve our goal to improve the terminus of our station as well as plans to build our multifunction display facility. This funding will see the start of the project. We would like to thank the whole team at Visit Wales who have been fabulous, and helped us through the mine field of paperwork to Page 3
achieve this project. OUR HERITAGE, KEEPING THE 1930S ALIVE
Building the new station to authenticate the Great Western Railway era is a key goal of our project. Hours of research has been undertaken to find the correct pattern gas style lamps and posts, to the right shade of to enhance our visitor experience. WHO IS PAYING FOR THE PROJECT?
Our project is a funding collaboration between the Vale of Rheidol Railway and Visit Wales using WFO funding as part of the TAD Destination Program and the TMF Regeneration Fund. The railway is providing 35% of the revenue to support the project whilst the remaining amount will come directly from grant funding. Once complete the project will have cost £2.2 million and will represent the largest single investment in the Vale of Rheidol since its construction. This
