Anglesey Central Railway Amlwch. The railways arrived on Anglesey with the construction of the Chester and Holyhead Railway, of which the section from Llanfairpwll to Holyhead opened in 1848, two years before the Britannia Bridge was finished. The Chester and Holyhead railway surveyed a branch to Llangefni in 1852, but chose not to proceed. George Stephenson notably reported that the line was not worth building. The idea of a local railway was still of interest to the people of Anglesey. A public meeting was held in Llangefni on 5 July 1858, to popularise the idea of building a railway leaving the main line
Disgwylfa, Holyhead a deacon at Disgwylfa. The 1909 chapel was built in the Romanesque style with a gable-entry plan and flanking turrets but was demolished in 2009. Disgwylfa, Holyhead Capel Disgwylfa was a Calvinistic Methodist chapel in London Road, Holyhead, Anglesey. The chapel was built in 1881, rebuilt in 1889 and rebuilt again in 1909. Henry David Hughes was the minister of Disgwylfa from 1915 until his death in 1947. Widely known as Harri Hughes, he had left school at the age of twelve to work in the Dinorwic quarry, as several generations of his family had done. At the age of