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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. 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 was a Butlin's (and later a Majestic Holidays) holiday camp located on Barry Island in Wales. It opened in 1966 and closed in 1996. History.
Once the site of the world’s busiest coal port, the non-island on the coast of Cardiff was firmly put on the map by Gavin & Stacey in the noughties. ... Barry Island Pleasure Park.
Woodham Brothers Ltd is a trading business, based mainly around activities and premises located within Barry Docks, in Barry, South Wales. It is noted globally for its 1960s activity as a scrapyard (hence its colloquial name of Barry Scrapyard ), where 297 withdrawn British Railways steam locomotives were sent, from which 213 were rescued for ...
Barry Island was once a popular holiday resort with south Wales' miners, who would head there with their families during miners' fortnight, typically the last week of July and the first week of ...
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.
The lighthouse at the entrance to the channel leading to the docks is just visible with Barry island on the skyline The Old Harbour, Barry, looking north towards the causeway that was built to Barry Island. Barry is situated on the north shore of the Bristol Channel, a few miles southwest of Cardiff. Before the docks were created, Barry Sound ...