December 2021
Earl of Merioneth heads out into the snowy landscape : Chris Cooper
Llanberis Lake Railway : Tony Wright
The Cob : Dave Webb
November 2021
FR : Harbour Station : Tony Wright
WLLR : Dave Webb
Token Change at Castletown; IoM; Gerv Wright
Motor Rail 20hp Simplex from 1918, with Works Number 997, was built for the Western Front and carried the WDLR number LR2718. Currently becoming part of the landscape as it awaits restoration : Alan Poxon
October 2021
Built in the 1930s by the Rio Grande Southern Railroad and operated until the end of service on the line in the early 1950s, the “ Galloping Goose” railcars were derived from full-sized automobiles. This replica is built on a Morris commercial chassis : Statfold : Dave Webb
Groudle Glen IoM: Stewart Liles
Stewart Liles
The first public outing of restored Avonside OGWEN at Apedale, running in its pre Penrhyn guise of DURHAM as when it worked for Durham County Water Board on the construction of Burnhope Reservoir in 1933.
Taliesin: Alan Poxon
September 2021
Englands : Alan Poxon
823 : Dave Webb
WLLR : Dave Webb
August 2021
Thomas Bach at Llanberis Lake Railway : Stuart Mackay
Superior at Whipsnade on successful test with briquettes made from rape seed waste: further tests are planned: Phil Thompson
Tanybwlch : Chris Cooper
1937 Cockerill built NGG16 No 87 with the Gelert Explorer : WHR :
Stuart Mackay
Blanche : Steve Smith
July 2021
Five Quarry Hunslets: Stewart Liles at Statfold
Cloister, Jack Lane , Sybil Mary, Britomart and Statfold
Lilla : Dave Webb at Statfold
VoR back in service : Steve Borszowski
In need of a little TLC : Alan Poxon at Embsay
June 2021
Porthmadog : Prince : Dave Webb
LYD now back in service : Andy Wilkinson
Hugh Napier : Tony Wright
Statfold Barn : Dave Webb
May 2021
Ty Fry bridge : Welsh Pony : Dave Taylor
First train : FR back in steam: Andy Wilkinson
April 2021
Threlkeld : Stewart Liles
FR works train: Tony Wright
HE1215 of 1916 : Apedale : Stewart Liles
In Shed : Boston Lodge : Steve Borszowski
March 2021
Bala : Tony Wright
DLG hauls the service train clear of Garnedd tunnel : Andy Wilkinson
Brush Battery loco 16303 of 1917. Worked at HM Explosives Factory, Queensferry, Flintshire : Apedale: Stewart Liles
WHR: Gerv Wright
February 2021
Brecon Mountain Railway : Stewart Liles
Taliesin: Hafod y Llyn: Tony Wright
Lilla and Britomart at Boston Lodge: Stewart Liles
Russell at Ynysfor : Tony Wright
January 2021
Davenport: Dave Webb at Statfold
" Britomart " from a slide taken in 1967 : Jack Sharples
Mountaineer at Tanygrisiau : Gerv Wright
Welsh Pony at Porthmadog : Chris Cooper
December 2020
Hunslet Ladies: Gerv Wright
WHR : Russell : Gerv Wright
Taliesin and Merddin Emrys : Cnicht in cloud : Tony Wright
Taliesin : Boston Lodge: Andy Wilkinson
November 2020
Bala Lake : Tony Wright
Apedale: Geoff Munday
FR : Tony Wright
"Kissack" IoM Railway : Stewart Liles
FR : Tony Wright
October 2020
Hunslet Harold FR : Boston Lodge Works : Chris Cooper
Hudswell Clarke GP39 at Threlkeld : Stewart Liles
Welsh Pony at Tan-y-Bwlch : Chris Cooper
W&LLR Countess : Steve Borszowski
September 2020
No 5 at Minnfordd : Stewart Liles
LYD : Ffestiniog Railway : Alan Poxon
Cloister and Sybil Mary at Statfold in August : Stewart Liles
Bagnall at Threlkeld : Sir Tom runs around the train: Phil Thompson
August 2020
K1 Garratt newly restored: Statfold: Stewart Liles
NDM-6 and Class B, Darjeeling Station : Paul Howard
Ex Abbey Light Railway Kirkstall Leeds : Stewart Liles
Statfold : Orenstein & Koppel No 614 built in 1900 for Pakis Baru
sugar mills in Indonesia : Dave Webb
Statfold : Stewart Liles
July 2020
Night falls a Llanfair : Stewart Liles
Merddin Emrys at Tanybwlch : Tony Wright
North Bay Railway : Alan Poxon
Statfold Goose : Stewart Liles
June 2020
Crossing the Cob: Gerv Wright
Threlkeld : Alan Poxon
Porthmadog : Stewart Liles
Garratt 138 at Pont Ynsferlas : WHR: Tony Wright
Henschel 15968 of 1918 : Stewart Liles
May 2020
A Baldwin 2-8-2 (Mikado), one of 6 supplied in 1946 for the 3’6” gauge Ferrocarril del Sur in Costa Rica. The line was built mainly to haul bananas along the Pacific coast and was finally closed in 1982. I came across this loco abandoned on a short spur at the Northern terminus at Palmar Sur :
Paul Howard.
Shunting Minffordd Yard : Tony Wright
Taliesin pilots Merddin Emrys at Salem : Tony Wright
Boston Lodge : Steve Borszowski
April 2020
Taliesin at Caenarfon : Tony Wright
W&LLR in 1988 : Dave Webb
Threlkeld : Alan Poxon
West Lancs : Stewart Liles
March 2020
Merddin Emrys takes on water at Tan-y-Bwlch : Tony Wright
Maeklong Railway Thailand : Paul Howard
Baldwin 44656 of 1917. After WW1 it saw service on the NW Frontier in the 3rd Anglo-Afghan War : Stewart Liles
February 2020
Tom Rolt : Tallylyn Railway : Tony Wright
Prince and Russell: Ynysfor ; WHR : Gerv Wright
Hunslet 1215 : Snowdon Street Porthmadog : Tony Wright
K1 : Chris Cooper
This loco has now been transferred to Statfold Barn for restoration this year.
January 2020
Works Train FR Baguley-Drewry Castell Criccieth : Steve Smith
Snowdon and Taliesin : Gerv Wright
WHR Waunfawr : Tony Wright
Wellington Cable Car : Funicular 3'3" gauge Railway from Lambton Quay to Kelburn Top [Botanic Gardens] Opened in 1898: originally powered by steam winding engine : Trev Oughton
December 2019
Alco Mountaineer : Tanybwlch 2014 : Andy Wilkinson
Garratt: north of Beddgelert : WHR : Tony Wright
Coaling at Porthmadog: Paul Varey
November 2019
Talyllyn : Geoff Munday
Porthmadog departure: Paul Varey
FR Victorian Weekend : Alan Poxon
Cockerill built No 87 at Dinas WHR : Stewart Liles
October 2019
Glyder [ Barclay No 1994 of 1931 ex Penrhyn Quarries ] at Beamish :
Paul Howard
Approaching Devil's Bridge: VoR: Gerv Wright
Victorian Weekend: Ffestiniog Railway : DLG : Les Lilley
VoR : Gerv Wright
September 2019
Crowle Peatland Railway : Alan Poxon
The Cob : Paul Varey
W&LLR September Gala : Gerv Wright
W&LLR Gala 2019 : Dave Webb
August 2019
Mallet No 11 storms into Obersizzen with the Vulcan express on the Brohltalbahn railway in Germany : Stuart Mackay
Vale of Rheidol : Approaching Devil's Bridge : Gerv Wright
Talyllyn: Stewart Liles
Vale of Rheidol : Gerv Wright
Taliesin at Ynysfor : Tony Wright
July 2019
WHR Gala : Chaloner : Tony Wright
Chakas Kraal No 6 and Tourska at Toddington : Gerv Wright
Russell and Prince at Hafod y Llyn : Tony Wright
Loading up at Statfold Barn: Dave Webb
No 3 Ripon and District : Dave Webb
June 2019
What a Train! What a Landscape! What a Day! Geoff Munday
Friday June 21st: At the end of its first day in revenue-earning passenger service on the old W H R for over 80 years, Russell heads back down Aberglaslyn Pass from Beddgelert with a train of ex-W H R stock, on an evening special as part of the FR/WHHR ‘Past, Present and Future’ weekend.
"Driver Experience" Tallylyn Railway : Paul Howard
Some spectacular steam effects : Harz : Gerv Wright
The final run at Adrian Shooter's garden line: Stuart Mackay
May 2019
Statfold Barn: Stewart Liles
New build LYN climbing the bank towards Woody Bay : Lynton and Barnstaple : Stuart Mackay
Spring primroses at Tanybwlch : Andy Wilkinson
April 2019
WD 303 raising steam at Statfold : Stewart Liles
Towyn: Stewart Liles
Departure from Towyn : Alan Poxon
DLG at Blaenau Ffestiniog : Andy Wilkinson
Jack : Stewart Liles at Statfold
March 2019
Two Fairbanks-Morse speeders supplied to the US army. They had no clutch so couldn't be operated slowly : Stewart Liles at Apedale.
How about a loco from Leeds UNDER a mountain?
Picture the scene: I'd driven half way across Europe for a trip or two on a narrow gauge railway operating steam trains on normal scheduled services. As the train pulled away from a small halt, I spied a collection of NG railway equipment parked under an opened-sided shed. A visit the next day revealed a Greenbat operating a tour into a "Steinkohl" mine. It was an interesting tour on the railway underground - the Erlebniswelt Rabensteiner Stollen : Phil Thompson
At Mayrhofen on the Zillertalbahn, the daily steam service runs around its train ready for the return run. Looks like it's being fired with a collection of old boots! Phil Thompson
On the Brohltalbahn, this beautifully-turned out Mallet tank heads the morning service out of Brohl-Lutzing. At Oberzissen, two-thirds of the way along the route, two diesels take over, working hard to haul the train up to the top of the hill at Engeln - with gradients as steep as 1 in 20 :
Phil Thompson
February 2019
The Brocken is a mountain slightly higher than Snowdon, yet the railway gradient to the top isn't the steepest on the Harz system and there's space for three long trains at the top! In the background, the once-a-day "Traditionszug" waits to return to Wernigerode whilst the normal service train arrives from Drei Annen Hohne :
Phil Thompson
Southwold Railway : Trev Oughton https://www.southwoldrailway.co.uk/
"Leader" Kerr-Stuart Brazil Class 0-4-2ST No 926 of 1905 : Sittingbourne and Kemsley Railway : Stewart Liles
Tom Rolt :Tallylyn : Geoff Munday
January 2019
FR: Harbour Bridge NG G16 No 138: Alan Poxon
0-6-2RT 8003 manufactured by Cail in 1891. Odontotos Rack Railway Greece: Andy Wilcock
https://odontotos.com/index-en.htm
Coaling and service after last trip of the day : Porthmadog : Andy Wilkinson
10hp Baguley No 760 ordered by the Board of Trade Timber Supplies Dept in 1918 : Stewart Liles
Last Santa train of 2018 crosses Britannia Bridge : Andy Wilkinson
December 2018
Chaka's Kraal No6 : Hunslet 2075 of 1940 supplied to Chaka's Kraal Sugar Estates Natal, South Africa : WHR : Gerv Wright
Alice :Bala: Stewart Liles
Llanfair W&LLR : one lump or two? Steve Borszowski
Coonoor Station, Nilgiri Railway, India: Paul Howard
Two of the oil fired SLM (Swiss Locomotive and Machine works) X class 0-8-2 metre gauge rack drive locos. Built between 1925 and 1952, the high pressure cylinders drive the adhesion wheels, the low pressure cylinders drive the rack wheels.
November 2018
Castleton Light Railway : North Yorkshire : Stewart Liles
Last Vehicle : Chris Cooper
New livery for Harlech Castle: FR: Andy Wilkinson
October 2018
Garratt 143 leaving Boston Lodge new carriage sheds: Alan Poxon
Alan Keef VB tram built for Telford Town Park Tramway and now resident at Telford Steam Railway : Alan Poxon
Towards Boston Lodge from Ferris Wheel : FR Victorian Weekend :
Andy Wilkinson
Inside Boston Lodge : Steve Borszowski
Running repairs : Baldwin 4-6-0 w/n 44656 1917 L.R. 778 :
Apedale : Lyndon Smith
September 2018
North Ings Farm : Alan Poxon ..ex East Anglia Water Ruston
and from Stuart Mackay...very similar small diesels....
Llanfair WLLR : Dave Webb
Corris Superpower! : O&K 0-4-0DH No 25721 Built 1957 : Nick Midgley
August 2018
David Lloyd George near Tanygrisiau : Stuart Mackay
Get the best view: Travelling in style on the Bernina Express Switzerland: Michael Bastow
Talyllyn : Steve Smith
July 2018
The ultimate Garden Railway : Beeches LR Oxfordshire: Stewart Liles
Tracks to the Trenches : Apedale : Alan Poxon
HE 1215 of 1916 at Apedale : Stewart Liles
Corris No 7 : Alan Poxon
Busy Porthmadog : Hunslet 125 celebration: Tony Wright
June 2018
Isibutu at Statfold : Alan Poxon
Sybil Mary at Statfold : Tony Wright
Fenella on the climb from Douglas to Port Soderick : Gerv Wright
Fenella at Castletown
Maid Marion and Alice at Bala : Stewart Liles
May 2018
Reflections at Statfold : Tony Wright
Woody Bay : Lynton and Barnstaple Railway : Steve Smith
and those beautiful coaches : Chris Cooper
Dolbadarn at Llanberris Lake Railway : Stewart Liles
David Lloyd George looking resplendent at Porthmadog: Alan Poxon
April 2018
FR Baldwin diesel " Moelwyn " with Van No 1 at Minfford: Andy Wilkinson
Drewry shunting at Woody Bay : L&B : Chris Cooper
Preparing the Bagnall and Peckett : Paul Howard: Statfold 2018
March 2018
Bala Lake Railway: Hunslet "Holy War" : Alan Poxon
K1 takes on water at Rhyd Ddu WHR : Tony Wright
Victorian livery: Chris Cooper
Prince enjoying the winter sunshine: FR Porthmadog: Dave Webb
Repairing No 14 at Welshpool Raven Square : Tony Wright
February 2018
Bala Lake : Alice : a view from the footplate : Stewart Liles
Earl of Merioneth leaving Porthmadog: Tony Wright
Tallylyn Wharf Station : Geoff Munday
Lilla and Britomart at Boston Lodge : Stewart Liles
January 2018
K1 Garratt pilots "Vale of Ffestiniog" on the WHR : Tony Wright
Talyllyn spring sunshine : Geoff Munday
NGG16 at Harbour : Paul Howard
Remember those warm summer days? Statfold Garden line: Tony Wright
Earl of Merioneth leaves Porthmadog : Andy Wilkinson
November 2017
Taliesin and Prince ready to depart Porthmadog : Andy Wilkinson
Some interesting machines on the Tanat Valley Railway : Stewart Liles
Prince at Dduallt : Andy Wilkinson
October 2017
Ashton Packet Boat Company, Guide Bridge, Manchester : Stewart Liles
Corris No 7 : Stewart Liles http://www.corris.co.uk/
Lilian : Launceston Railway : Stewart Liles
Taliesin resplendent outside Harbour Station: FR Victorian Weekend 2017:
Chris Cooper
Tallylyn: Tom Rolt: Stewart Liles
September 2017
West Lancs 50th Anniversary : Cloister, Irish Mail, Alice, Stanhope
and Joffre: Alan Poxon
WHR : Aberglaslyn Pass : Nicki Robinson
and for an aerial view click here
W&LLR September Gala : Superb and Joan : Dave Webb
August 2017
Taliesin FR Blaenau Ffestiniog : Stewart Liles
Alp Grum station on the Italian side of the Bernina Pass, 2091m above sea level. Top left is one of the snow covered peaks of the Palu Glacier :
Phil Thompson
Jack Lane and Cloister at the West Lancs August Gala: Dave Webb
FR : Tony Wright
WHR : Tony Wright
July 2017
Owl and Hawk : Kirklees LR : Dave Webb
Fintown Railway : former County Donegal Joint Committee. There are five or six Railcars in various states of preservation. No18 is the only working example : Steve Smith http://www.antraen.com/
FR: Minnfordd : Geoff Munday
Wernigerode : Brocken Mountain Railway : Michael Bastow
http://www.wernigerode-tourismus.com/sights/steam-trains/brocken-train-line.html
Springfield Agricultural Railway , Huntingdon : Stewart Liles
http://www.ingr.co.uk/sar_intro.html
June 2017
The Spiral : Trev Oughton
The Cob FR : Trev Oughton
May 2017
Palmerston FR Harbour: Stewart Liles
O&K 2378 Utrillas being prepared at West Lancs Hesketh Bank :
Cedric Binns
Porthmadog FR Quirks and Curiosities Weekend : Andy Wilkinson
Isaac at Woody Bay : Lynton and Barnstaple Railway : Stuart Mackay
ISAAC - Bagnall No. 3023 - built 1953 as an 0-4-2T 2 ft (610 mm) gauge loco, one of four Bagnall locos built for the South Africa Rustenberg Plantinum Mine.
In June 2012 “Isaac” was relocated to Boston Lodge Works to complete the restoration, arriving at Woody Bay on 29 November 2013. [ L&B website ]
Merddin Emrys on service train at Tanygrisiau : FR : Andy Wilkinson
April 2017
No 9/1213 "Prince of Wales" with air pump and No 8 "Llywelyn" with air pump now disguised in left hand side tank at Devils Bridge : Vale of Rheidol Railway
Cleethorpes Coast LR No 24 giving rides at Peterborough : Paul Howard
No.12 'Joan' (Kerr Stuart No.4404, 1927) : Paul Howard
One HP : ‘A pit pony at Penryrheol Mine near Pontypool in April 1982 – Andrew Neale’
March 2017
Palmerston with a freight train at Minffordd FR : Andy Wilkinson
Sittingbourne and Kemsley : "Leader" Kerr Stuart 926 of 1905:
Stewart Liles
1976 The Cadeby Light Railway and Rev. Teddy Boston driving " Pixie" a Bagnall purchased in 1962 from the Cranford Quarry. 2 foot gauge in the garden!! : Dave Webb archive.
1979 Isle of Man Dave Webb relives his memories.......
February 2017
It's 1978 and Prince of Wales is in BR blue livery :
a Vale of Rheidol archive photo from Dave Webb
new build L&B "LYD" takes water at Pothmadog : Dave Webb
Ffestiniog Railway Tan-y-Bwlch Station : Andy Wilkinson
Valkenburg NG Steam Museum, situated north of the Hague, is only two hours drive from Sheffield, assuming you take the ferry from Hull!
Phil Thompson
http://www.stoomtreinkatwijkleiden.nl/english/#.WJCxMWdvjcs
January 2017
Tanygrisiau Reservoir Ffestiniog Railway : Gerv Wright
A reminder of summer on the Vale of Rheidol : Gerv Wright
Boxing Day at Porthmadog : Andy Wilkinson
December 2016
Ffestiniog Triple : Gerv Wright
Welsh Highland Railway : approaching Rhyd Ddu: Gerv Wright
Owain Glyndwr VofR No 7 partially rebuilt and photographed
at the NEC by Paul Varey
http://www.rheidolrailway.co.uk/locos.htm
B Class splendour : Paul Howard
November 2016
Late evening outside Darjeeling shed : Paul Howard
A 2'6" gauge Dick Kerr loco, built in 1910 for the Karachi Port Trust. Renovated in 1990 by the Amritsar workshops, it now stands on a plinth outside of the office of the general manager of the Northern Railway of India in New Delhi. A sister loco is preserved at the National Rail Museum in New Delhi : Paul Howard
W&LLR : Chevallier 0-6-2T steam locomotive built by
Manning Wardle & Co, Leeds, in 1915 : Gerv Wright
Palmerston with a goods train at Minffordd : FR Victorian Weekend:
Andy Wilkinson
October 2016
Rhiw Valley Railway : Paul Howard click here to find out more...
Ffestiniog Victorian Weekend : Superpower : Geoff Munday
Romney Hythe and Dimchurch: Stewart Liles
Talyllyn : Tom Rolt : Gerv Wright and Paul Howard [below ]
September 2106
L&B Steve Smith
Vale of Rheidol No 8 at Aberffrwd crossing : Gerv Wright
Taliesin in new livery standing at Boston Lodge works: Andy Wilkinson
Countess Banwy Bridge WLLR Sept Gala : Dave Webb
Bala August Gala : Trev Oughton
August 2016
Hythe Pier No 2 BE 16302 of 1917 three rail electric : Stewart Liles
OK 2368 Utrillas at West Lancs : Cedric Binns
Isle of Man Festival of Transport Groudle Glen : Nick Midgley
Replica Lewin loco 'Ant ' on 20 inch track with Steamplex in foreground, driven by owner John Boyes.
Hudswell Clarke No 1172 built 1922, newly outshopped from Statfold Barn and seen at Threlkeld Mining Museum : Dave Webb
July 2016
Paddy at Threlkeld : Stewart Liles
Velinheli, Linda and Prince with the Snowdonia Limited at Tanygrisiau:
Gerv Wright
Earl of Merioneth above Tanygrisiau Reservoir : Gerv Wright
David Lloyd George above Tanygrisiau heading for Blaenau:
Stewart Liles
June 2016
The two ends of the Ratty : Dalegarth: Cedric Binns
Ravenglass : Tony Marshall
Statfold Barn : Bagnall Isibutu : Paul Howard
Statfold Barn : Stewart Liles
New FR Carriage 150 interior : Andy Wilkinson
Wells and Walsingham Garratt : Stewart Liles
Bure Valley L&M loco " Mark Timothy" at Wroxham : Stuart Mackay
May 2016
Apedale WW1 event. “JOFFRES” Kerr Stuart 2405 and 3014 :
Cedric Binns
The Threlkeld Quarry and Mining Museum : Trev Oughton.
Darjeeling "B" Class at Harbour Station with Victorian train :
Andy Wilkinson
The " Snowdonian" passes through Minffordd : Ffestiniog Railway:
Andy Wilkinson
April 2016
Dolbadarn at Gilfach Ddu workshops Llanberris : Stewart Liles
Taliesin at Boston Lodge in new livery : Andy Wilkinson
Capel Bangor crossing Vale of Rheidol: Gill Cooper
Porthmadog Garratt: Andy Wilkinson
March 2016
FR : Gerv Wright
David Lloyd George : FR: Andy Wilkinson
Bolton Fell Peat Works Carlisle : Stewart Liles
Harz Mountain Railway : Paul Varey
http://www.hsb-wr.de/en/mehr-erkunden/vehicle/steam-locomotives
February 2016
Upnor Castle : Welsh Highland : Stewart Liles
W&LLR Llanfair : The Earl: Dave Webb
Lynton and Barnstaple: Woody Bay : and Axe waiting to pick up her train.
Stewart Liles
Isle of Man : Dave Webb
January 2016
Crossing the Glaslyn : WHR : Gerv Wright
Early morning preparations: Boston Lodge Works: Geoff Munday
Vale of Rheidol: arriving at Nantyronen Station: Stewart Liles
DLG on Service train Gwyndy Bank : FR : Andy Wilkinson
December 2015
No 8 waiting at Aberffrwd Station : Vale of Rheidol: Stewart Liles
Blocking the view : Andy Wilkinson : NG16 Garratt lunch break
WHR : Aberglaslyn Pass : Gerv Wright
No8 Llywelyn crosses the Afon Rheidol trestle bridge : Stewart Liles.
November 2015
Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway.
Last train of the season passes the newly erected traditional style waiting shelter at Castle Caereinion, 1st Nov 2015.
This is the first shelter of its type to be present on the railway since 1956 when BR demolished the ones at Golfa, Castle Caereinion and Heniarth. A second shelter is being built 28/29 Nov 2105 at Heniarth to replace the one removed by BR in 1956 :
Dave Billmore
David Lloyd George pulls gravity train to Ffestiniog Power Station summit : Andy Wilkinson
Statfold Barn September Open Day: Paul Howard
Douglas running round at Nant Gwernol: Talyllyn Railway : Stewart Liles
Lighting up on the W&LLR : Dave Webb
October 2015
Recent FR Victorian weekend Linda and Blanche double head across Penrhyn Bakehouse Crossing and at Minfordd in May : Andy Wilkinson
South Tynedale Railway : “Barber” was built by Thomas Green and Company Limited of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England in 1908, works No. 441.
: Steve Smith http://www.south-tynedale-railway.org.uk/locomotives-stock/
click here for Steve's Barber video
WHR with Cnicht : Gerv Wright
September 2015
L&B "Lyd" Ffestiniog Railway : Gerv Wright
Douglas taking on coal and water at Tywyn wharf : Stewart Liles
Brecon Mountain Railway : Baldwin 61269 of 1930 pulls into the new terminus at Torpantau : Stewart Liles
Snowdon Mountain Railway from the WHR at Rhyd Ddu :
Dave Taylor
August 2015
Statfold Barn : Gerv Wright
Threlkeld Open Day
www.threlkeldquarryandminingmuseum.co.uk
Hugh Napier Quarry Hunslet 1904 Works No. 855
and Marchlyn Avonside 1933 Works No 2067:
Penrhyn Quarries : Cedric Binns
Stewart Liles
Flameproof Hunslet diesel hydraulic No 7446 with
Clayton Battery loco behind: Clearwell Caves Forest of Dean
July 2015
Bala Lake Railway : Trev Oughton
Tallylyn 150 : Steve Smith
June 2015
Le Chermin de Fer de la Baie de Somme www.cfbs.eu/en
E322 Réseau Breton 4-6-0 tank locomotive built by Franco-belge in 1904:
Phil Thompson
Train à vapeur Lac de Rillé POLSKA Henshel & Sohn 15973 0-4-0T 1918
The town of Rillé is located in the Loire Valley central France http://www.aecfm.fr
: Bob Walker
Perrygrove Railway http://perrygrove.co.uk Gloucestershire 15" :
Phil Thompson
May 2015
Merddin Emrys : Ffestiniog Railway : Porthmadog: Andy Wilkinson
Merddin Emrys : Ffestiniog Railway : Steve Smith
Merddin Emrys at Tanygrisiau : Ffestiniog Railway : Steve Smith
April 2105
Linda and Blanche preparing to double head : Porthmadog: Stewart Liles
The French constructed over 600km of metre gauge railways in Cambodia when it was part of French Indochina. This loco was built in 1912 by the Franco - Belge company.
Paul Howard
Statfold Spring Gala : Dave Webb
March 2015
FR : Boston Lodge: Paul Howard
Moelwyn 0-4-0PM was built by Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia in 1918 for service in Word War I with the French Army.
FR Victorian Weekend : Hugh Napier : Andy Wilkinson
Statfold Barn : Chris Cooper
February 2015
WHR Pont Croesor from Moel Ddu : Dave Taylor
WHR : Hafodyllyn from Llys : Dave Taylor
January 2015
WHR K1 : Stewart Liles
Portmadog Cob from Moel Ddu : Dave Taylor
Dougal W&LLR : Paul Howard
WHR Jan 2010 K1 and NG 143 double-heading : Stewart Liles
December 2014
Talyllyn : Paul Howard
Ffestiniog Railway : Michael Bastow
November 2014
WLLR : Paul Howard
Talyllyn : Michael Bastow
FR : Paul Howard
October 2014
Porthmadog arrival : Michael Bastow
Porthmadog departure : Paul Howard
Visitors to Statfold Barn Open Day 13 Sept enjoying the garden sunshine: Trev Oughton
Adrian Shooter's Darjeeling Himalayan Railway B class loco
running on the South Tynedale Railway : Paul Howard
Looking back at Countess: W&LLR : Chris Cooper
September 2014
W&LLR : Welshpool servicing : Chris Cooper
August 2014
At Beamish : Steve Smith
Ffestiniog Railway : David Lloyd George : Andy Wilkinson
July 2014
Linda : Paul Butler
2,244m above Sea level - BrienzRothornBahn, the oldest steam powered cogwheel railway in Switzerland : Steve Smith
Hudswell Clarke 972 of 1912 known as Lautoka No.11, newly named 'Fiji' stands at the new Porthmadog platform : Andy Wilkinson
June 2014
Devil's Bridge VoR : Phil Thompson
March 2014
Taliesin: Andy Wilkinson
Track reconfiguration and new WHR station Porthmadog:
Andy Wilkinson
W&LLR Spring working week : Trev Oughton
February 2014
Industrial Landscape : Tony Wright
December 2013
Winifred's Frames; BLR : Andy Wilkinson
Talyllyn Railway : Paul Howard
Dolbadarn : Paul Howard
November 2013
Ffestiniog Railway : Steve Smith : A struggling Taliesin at
Tan y Bwlch
October 2013
Chris Cooper WHR Beddgelert
Sept 2013
Chris Cooper visited the Purbeck Mining Museum at Norden
www.pmmmg.org gives an overview of the Isle of Purbeck ball clay mines and tramways : Fayles' Tramways and Pikes' Tramways.
in 1881 the pits north of Norden Farm were being worked out and the tramway was extended eastwards along a parallel route to the proposed Swanage Railway to Norden where pits were dug, clay was processed and weathered. When the L&SWR branch line to Swanage was built an interchange siding was constructed and named "Lord Eldon's Clay Works Siding" to transfer clay to standard gauge wagons by shovel (a lot later a ramp was built to enable the clay to be tipped).
A short section of 2' gauge track has been reinstated next to a restored section of the mine and Emmet is seen with tippers at the recent Gala.
Emmet was converted from an Orenstein & Koppel 21159 was a type RL3 diesel that was built in 1938. It was "imported" via George W Bungey Ltd. at Hayes Middlesex and sold to ECC Ball clay Mines at Norden. In November 1972, it was purchased by Hampshire Lt. Rly. Soc. & Museum, Durley, Hants. In 2003 this diesel was "converted" into the steam engine "Emmet" by Jim Haylock.
Quarry Hunslet No 542 1891 Alice class ex-Dinorwic "Cloister " is
also resident at Norden but is not in steam
Secundus is housed in the Corfe Museum of Swanage Railway.
An interesting fact! Russell Hunslet built 1906
In 1936 when the WHR was closed Russel spent a spell of five years in the Dinas shed followed by six years working for the Ministry of Supply at Hook Norton Mines in Oxfordshire. In 1948 Russell came south to Norden.
The leading axle gave trouble (due to the poor quality of the track) and she latterly worked as a 0-6-2 T. But in 1953 a further boiler certificate was refused, and she was purchased by the Birmingham Locomotive Club for exhibition at the narrow-gauge Museum at Towyn in North Wales, being moved in August 1955