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Barry Island railway station is the terminus of Network Rail's Barry Branch and connects with the main line and various Valley lines at Cardiff, about 9 miles (14 km) north, north-east of Barry. Further tourist attractions were developed on the island, and by 1934 the number of visitors to the fairground during the August Bank Holiday week was ...
Barry Island Pleasure Park has been serving up screams and ice creams since 1897 (Visit Wales) There have been thrills, entertainment and sticks of candy floss at Barry Island Pleasure Park since ...
Barry Island. The Barry Island peninsula was an island until the 1880s when it was linked to the mainland as the town of Barry expanded. This was partly due to the opening of Barry Dock by the Barry Railway Company. Established by David Davies, the docks now link up the gap which used to form Barry Island.
Barry Island (Welsh: Ynys y Barri) is a small seaside resort in the Bristol Channel (Môr Hafren) about 9 miles (14 km) south by south west of Cardiff, (Welsh: Caerdydd), south Wales. Until 1896, when a rail link was completed from the mainland, the only access to Barry Island was either by foot across the sand and mud at low tide, or, when the ...
While sunning herself on the beach with Uncle Bryn, Smithy, Nessa and the rest of the Shipman-West crew, she conceded maybe Barry Island wasn't so bad after all. "Wow," she says. "This is lovely."
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Barry Island Pleasure Park is an amusement park situated on the coast at Barry Island in the Vale of Glamorgan, about 10 miles (16 km) south west of the capital city Cardiff, Wales. The park opens annually at weekends from Easter onwards and daily during the school summer holidays, until the first weekend in September.
In the late 1940s, Butlin's launched an ambitious project to build a 1000-guest resort at West End, Grand Bahama Island in the Bahamas from scratch, including the construction of an airport, West End Airport. Almost all materials and equipment had to be brought in by air or boat onto an island that at the time was almost completely undeveloped.