The OTHER Bow Street Station reopens after 56 years

[John Ashworth]

Station reopening at Bow Street brings first trains for 56 years

The name may be synonymous with a space on a Monopoly board and its connection to the birth of professional policing - but Bow Street has got its station back. However, it is not the Bow Street near Covent Garden in central London but its namesake near Aberystwyth in mid Wales. For the first time in 56 years, the village was joined to the rail network as the first train stopped on Sunday...