Salem
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| Salem | |
| Unsure precise location | |
| Previous Station | Waunfawr |
| Status | Long since demolished |
| Next Station | Plas y nant |
| Harbour Station | |
|---|---|
This place mentioned in Boyd. Salem (short A, pronounced Sallem), is a Biblical name given to the chapel across the river, now Lewis Esposito's antique furniture restoration workshop. The railway climbs up this picturesque gap with the river swirling in flood or lying in calm below the train. Had Mr Spooner's Parliamentary line been taken in 1875, we would have had a far better line and a faster climb, but to save every last penny in those days, the railway wiggles back and forth across every fold in the landscape, making heavy weather of the ascent, even though the gauge has been widened on this stretch. Please give a friendly wave to Mr Bohannon at the house on the right side as you ascend, opposite the footbridge across the river to Salem Chapel. There was a halt here in the days of the old Welsh Highland Railway, but few people used it.