The shoebill, whalehead or boatbill, as it is sometimes called, is one of Africa's strangest and rarest endemics.

Both day and night did we keep company.

I don't want an elephant's soul, or any soul at all! he said. For a few moments he sat despondently. Suddenly he jumped to his feet, with his eyes blazing and all the signs of intense cerebral excitement. To hell with you and your souls! he shouted. Why do you plague me about souls? Haven't I got enough to worry, and pain, to distract me already, without thinking of souls?

All signage in and around the station is bilingual in Welsh and English, while station announcements and passenger information screens provide real-time information.