British rail ticket Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

Description

British railway platform ticket
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, Wales, 1962
April 21, 1962
This platform ticket was issued by the British Transport Commission. Some were available at the British Transport Museum in Covent Garden, central London, in the 1960s.
It was sold as “the longest platform ticket in the world” because it contained the name of a Welsh village station whose name is the longest in Great Britain (and with 58 characters the second longest village name in the world).
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is a large village on the island of Anglesey in Wales, situated on the Menai Strait next to the Britannia Bridge and across the strait from Bangor.
For brevity’s sake, it is alternatively known as Llanfairpwll or Llanfair PG.
The name means: Parish of St. Mary in a Hollow of the White Hazel near the rapid whirlpool and the parish of St. Tysilio with a red cave.
The name was invented in the 1860s for tourism purposes with the intent of the village having the railway station with the longest name in Britain, a feat never bettered.
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