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The town of Porthmadog owes its existence to MP, William A Madocks who reclaimed from the sea the land on which it now stands and nearly ruined him financially as the total cost of the 500 acres of the Glaslyn estuary was over £100,000.
Porthmadog was the port in which slate from Blaeneau Ffestiniog was exported. After the railway closed in the 1930s, but local volunteers in 1954 began restoring the line and is today a delightful train ride which carries tourists through beautiful countryside.
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- Landmark