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Extract from the Blaenau Ffestiniog Travel Guides:
Every approach to
BLAENAU FFESTINIOG
is dramatic, but none more so than the train journey through the Lledr Valley from Betws-y-Coed. Following the twists of the river, the railway passes through broadleaf woods which give way to the smooth, grassy slopes of the Moel Siabod, where the longest rail tunnel in Wales bores through over two miles of slate to suddenly emerge in the town. Blaenau means "head of the valley", in this case the lush Vale of Ffestiniog, a dramatic contrast to the forbidding town, hemmed in by stark slopes strewn with heaps of discarded, splintered slate. When clouds hunker low in this great cwm and rain...
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