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    Now is the time to back Bala railway extension

    Feb 16, 2021 3 minutes
    By Robin Jones
    BLR

    THE Bala Lake Railway’s £2.5 million town extension could hold a vital key to the post-lockdown revival of the tourist sector in central Wales, chairman Julian Birley believes.

    Bringing the 2ft gauge line into Bala would regenerate the town as a time when holidaymakers will be deterred from travelling abroad in the aftermath of the pandemic.

    To help facilitate the extension, by the end of February the Bala Lake Railway Trust

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