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3 unusual facts about The Spooners of Porthmadog


St Cynhaearn's Church, Ynyscynhaearn

A memorial to James Spooner, the surveyor who built the Festiniog Railway, and members of his family comprises a stone urn surrounded by iron railings.

The Spooners of Porthmadog

Later engines were delivered on the newly opened Cambrian Railways to Minffordd where Spooner had laid out a pattern of exchange sidings that inspired many visitors from abroad to adopt narrow gauge as the inexpensive feeder line to the standard gauge.

Madocks house Tanyrallt Isa at Tremadog where Elizabeth and Harriet were born and Caroline was accidentally shot dead by Matthew.



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