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TRAIN
Bangor's train station is on Holyhead Rd, just off the southwest end of the High St. Direct
services head to/from Holyhead (£8.70, 30 minutes), Rhosneigr (£6.10, 24 minutes), Llan-
fair PG (£2.80, six minutes), Conwy (£6.30, 17 minutes) and London Euston (£86, 3¼
hours).
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Conwy
POP 4100
A visit to Britain's most complete walled town should be high on the itinerary for anyone
with even a mild crush on things historic. The World Heritage-listed castle continues to
dominate the town, as it's done ever since Edward I first planted it here.
Approaching from the east, the scene is given another theatrical flourish by a tightly
grouped trio of bridges crossing the River Conwy, including Thomas Telford's 1826 sus-
pension bridge (one of the first of its kind in the world) and Robert Stephenson's 1848
wrought-iron railway bridge (the first ever tubular bridge).
