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| style="font-weight:normal;" | Manned ticket office and waiting room combined. Level access and lifts to all platforms and waiting rooms. | | style="font-weight:normal;" | Manned ticket office and waiting room combined. No ticket machines. Ticket office counter is low, at a comfortable wheelchair height. Level access and lifts to all platforms and waiting rooms. | ||
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| Outdoor areas | | Outdoor areas | ||
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* Platform 2 is closer to the entrance, is roofed but open to the elements and has several benches. The ticket office has a waiting room in it, but when the ticket office is closed the waiting room is unavailable. | |||
* Platform 1 is further from the ticket office, access is via the uncovered footbridge that has optional stairs and two lifts on it. There is a waiting room on platform 1 that is a small shedlike building with doors and windows. (Don't know if it is locked at night, but suspect it might be?) | |||
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| Toilets, etc. | | Toilets, etc. | ||
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* [https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/mcn/ Machynlleth Station on National Rail website] | |||
* When the train is on platform 2 (by the ticket office, not over the bridge) and going to Aberystwyth and Pwllheli, the train separates and the front two carriages go to Aber and the back two carriages go to Pwllheli. The conductors are quite careful to check that everyone is in the right carriage for where they're going, and there's time to switch from the Aber train to the Pwllheli train or vice versa if you've ended up in the wrong carriage by accident. Both sections stop at Dyfi Junction (the next stop after Mach), but after that they go in totally different directions. | * When the train is on platform 2 (by the ticket office, not over the bridge) and going to Aberystwyth and Pwllheli, the train separates and the front two carriages go to Aber and the back two carriages go to Pwllheli. The conductors are quite careful to check that everyone is in the right carriage for where they're going, and there's time to switch from the Aber train to the Pwllheli train or vice versa if you've ended up in the wrong carriage by accident. Both sections stop at Dyfi Junction (the next stop after Mach), but after that they go in totally different directions. | ||
* When the train arrives in Mach from Aberystwyth or Pwllheli, it combines with the two carriages from the other place and becomes one four-carriage train that travels on towards Birmingham together. As the train pulls into the station there may be a jolt as the second train joins onto the first, before the doors open. If you're unsteady on your feet, grab onto something or stay seated until the doors open; there will be enough time to alight and change carriages if you need to. | * When the train arrives in Mach from Aberystwyth or Pwllheli, it combines with the two carriages from the other place and becomes one four-carriage train that travels on towards Birmingham together. As the train pulls into the station there may be a jolt as the second train joins onto the first, before the doors open. If you're unsteady on your feet, grab onto something or stay seated until the doors open; there will be enough time to alight and change carriages if you need to. | ||
* For some reason the lifts and lift doors are often ''full of flies'' to a near-horror-movie degree!? | * For some reason the lifts and lift doors are often ''full of flies'' to a near-horror-movie degree!? | ||
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