Yorkshire222
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Looking at some photos on flickr from the 1960s and 1970s of Aberystwyth station I was wondering where the current ticket office buildings come from (on the current platform - not the Wetherspoons building) - they look like period buildings but don't seem to have been there when Aberystwyth had many more platforms.
There seem to have been 5 platforms (or 6?); I can't see platform numbers on the photos but the south 2 are for Carmarthen trains (lets call these 1 & 2) - when this line was closed down the VoR took them over and now have a shed there. The middle 2 are the existing platforms (calling these 3 & 4) so 3 is the current (only) platform and photos only show a canopy on it in the 1960s - no buildings. Then there was another platform on the north side (calling this 5), was there a platform 6?
The canopies seem to have been partly removed by the 1970s and there seems to be a wall separating 4 & 5 along the canopy length - presumably 5 had become goods only?
There seem to have been 5 platforms (or 6?); I can't see platform numbers on the photos but the south 2 are for Carmarthen trains (lets call these 1 & 2) - when this line was closed down the VoR took them over and now have a shed there. The middle 2 are the existing platforms (calling these 3 & 4) so 3 is the current (only) platform and photos only show a canopy on it in the 1960s - no buildings. Then there was another platform on the north side (calling this 5), was there a platform 6?
The canopies seem to have been partly removed by the 1970s and there seems to be a wall separating 4 & 5 along the canopy length - presumably 5 had become goods only?