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Issued to commemorate the seventy-fifth (75) anniversary of the opening of the "Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway". Issued in sheets of twelve stamps [4 rows of 3]. The "Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway" was built in 1903 to link farming communities to the market town of Welshpool and to provide them with a market for their produce. Initially served by the Cambrian Railways, the line was taken over by the Great Western and then the British Railways. After 1931, the railway only carried freight traffic and was finally closed in 1956. In 1963, a group of enthusiasts gathered and gradually began to reopen the line until it became the railway that still exists today.
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