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Duffws station first opened in January 1866 and led a chequered existence until final closure in 1931. The building remains today as a council operated public convenience, across the main road from the Queen's Hotel (recently renamed Gwesty Ty Gorsaf). A slightly odd feature of the building is that it does not appear ever to have had any doors in the rear, only in the platform side, and one, now walled up, in the East end. However the building is actually quite small and was probably entirely occupied by railway offices. There was no waiting room or other passenger accommodation inside except in the open-fronted central area, since enclosed. The booking office had a ticket-issuing window to the outside, as at Minffordd. Passengers approaching from the High Street would have had to walk across all the sidings to get on to the ground-level platform. Photo credit: User:George Cash |