Aberystwyth and the Vale of Rheidol Railway
![Aberystwyth and the Vale of Rheidol Railway](/content/images/size/w1200/2022/09/IMG_4785.jpeg)
My trip to Aberystwyth involved three return journeys. The London to Birmingham leg on the always-awful Avanti West Coast. The tolerable but irritating chug along the mostly single-track Cambrian line on some ex-British Rail rolling stock. And then there was the social event on the penultimate day of the conference: a free trip on the Vale of Rheidol Railway from Aber to Devil's Bridge and back. (There was also the tube I got on on the way home when I'd just learned the Queen had died, but that doesn't count.)
Even though I got wet, the rain meant we were blessed with dramatic skies and several rainbows. I took my cameras (including some Portra 160 because I'm one of those film tossers now) and here are the results from the week.
Aberystwyth
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![A mezzanine walkway in a large atrium with floor-to-ceiling windows looking out to sea on a grey day.](https://www.jonathanis.online/content/images/2022/09/000004970029.jpg)
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![View out of a single glazed window at sunset behind some clouds in the rain. A building and trees are visible, and so is the sea.](https://www.jonathanis.online/content/images/2022/09/IMG_4743.jpeg)
The Vale of Rheidol Railway
![People seen from behind sit in an open railway carriage in golden light. The sun casts shadows across one man's red shirt.](https://www.jonathanis.online/content/images/2022/09/000004970026.jpg)
![View out over a valley bathed in golden light. There are trees and fields, and a tower on the summit of a hill.](https://www.jonathanis.online/content/images/2022/09/000004970013.jpg)
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![A carpet of trees in golden light on the other side of the valley. Some of them are bare trunks.](https://www.jonathanis.online/content/images/2022/09/000004970008.jpg)
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