Why Wales' quietest station, Sugar Loaf, got busier

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The station is located one mile to the north-east of a small but prominent knoll known as Sugar Loaf.

A Sugarloaf was the traditional form in which refined sugar used to be produced and a number of hills/mountains resembling that shape are named/nicknamed because of that resemblance.
 
The station is located one mile to the north-east of a small but prominent knoll known as Sugar Loaf.

A Sugarloaf was the traditional form in which refined sugar used to be produced and a number of hills/mountains resembling that shape are named/nicknamed because of that resemblance.
You beat me to it, greatwestern!

Indeed, the name of the hill, and hence the station, comes from the shape of old sugar lumps, in the old days one had to hack or break off a small lump of sugar from a larger "loaf".

There is a well known Sugar Loaf mountain in South Africa.

Ed.
 
And one outside Rio de Janeiro.  You can take a cable car (two consecutive ones, actually) to the top of Sugar Loaf.  The views from there are superb!
 
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You beat me to it, greatwestern!

Indeed, the name of the hill, and hence the station, comes from the shape of old sugar lumps, in the old days one had to hack or break off a small lump of sugar from a larger "loaf".

There is a well known Sugar Loaf mountain in South Africa.

Ed.
So it was basically just a giant sugar cube?
 
So it was basically just a giant sugar cube?
More like this shape (this is the actual Sugar Loaf that gave its name to the station):

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