| Ddisgrifiad / Description | The Station is to be found on Vaughan Street. In order to extend Vaughan Street to the first Railway Station in 1858, a long barrow or Stone Age burial mound had to be removed. The present Station was built in 1891. Its five platforms and features of a major terminal, like the long carriageway between Platforms 2 and 3, were matched by enormous balloon sidings where trains, arriving every four minutes at peak excursion periods were taken for cleaning, coaling and watering for their return journeys. It was in these sidings, behind King's Road, that the Royal Train was parked soon after midnight on the 8 August 1963, ready to steam into Llandudno the following morning for the first visit to the town of a reigning British Monarch, Queen Elizabeth the Second, accompanied by Prince Philip. These sidings were removed during the two years following the substitution of diesel locomotives in 1966. One famous steam engine to visit Llandudno was the Flying Scotsman on 4 June 1966.
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