Hay-on-Wye railway station Hay-on-Wye railway station Hay was a railway station serving the town of Hay-on-Wye in Powys, Wales. Hay had one of the earliest railway stations in the country, being part of a horse-drawn tramway. The Hay Railway opened from the Brecon & Abergavenny Canal at Brecon to Hay on 7 May 1816. The line was opened from Hay to Clifford Castle on 30 July 1817. The line was not completed between The Lakes at Clifford and Eardisley until 1 December 1818 because of the problem of the river crossing at Whitney-on-Wye. The Hay Railway was sold in 1860 to the Hereford,
Aspen Institute Wye River Conference Centers section - Wye Woods - is now closed and is being offered for sale.) In 1995 the Conference Center was the site for negotiations between Israel and the Palestine Authority which resulted in the Wye River Memorandum. Since 1998, the Wye River Group on Healthcare has conducted policy meetings on retreat there. Elián González and his father stayed there briefly in 2000. Beginning in September 2008, and meeting quarterly through December 2009, The Aspen Philanthropy Seminar–Washington, DC, convened a small group of philanthropists at the Center. The River House facility was originally developed in 1987 as a specialized high-tech conference