Looking east through Colwyn Bay station illustrates a traditional and

attractive structure. It also reveals its unusual location on a sharp curve in the line necessitating a steep camber on the tracks that can just be seen in the foreground. The station was opened by the Chester and Holyhead Railway in October 1849 named Colwyn to become Colwyn Bay in 1876. In the early 1980s, soon after this photograph was taken, the life of the station was severely disrupted by the construction of the A55 'Expressway' that goes through a short tunnel directly below the station's entrance forecourt.