This panoramic view was taken from the cliff behind the engine shed and shows BR Standard Class ‘4’ 4-6-0 No. 75002 arriving with a Pwllheli-Paddington train.
The large and elaborate station building was constructed from stone excavated from Talerddig cutting and owed its size and style to the Newtown & Machynlleth Company’s Chairman Earl Vane who apparently ordered the architect to make his home station the ‘best’ on the line, delaying its building by almost six months as he added to the specification; it is still in use today. Opposite, and in complete contrast to the building on the Down side, was the small wooden waiting shelter and there was also a GWR ‘pagoda’ hut immediately to the right of the footbridge.
The hut next to the footbridge where the Austin A40 is parked was for the yard foreman and the light-coloured building to the left was the Permanent Way Department salt and weed-killer store. The large dark coloured timber building was the PW Department office, which was moved from Aberdovey in 1925. There is a carpenters’ shop behind it and to the right is the PW Sub-Inspector’s office. The three large buildings in the centre of the picture were warehouses leased to British Oil & Cake Mills, the animal feed company. Beyond, further to the left, are the cattle pens, which do not appear to have been used for some time, and the Esso petrol unloading facility. The 16 Ton mineral wagon loaded with coal is at the end of the shed’s turntable road; the shed is off picture to the right.