Blaenau Ffestiniog sits without but completely surrounded by the Snowdonia National Park, due to the scars from its industrial past of slate quarrying, and the various waste heaps. Not quite the s... (more)
With plenty of frost around, the Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway's Great Western Railway 5600 Class 0-6-2T no. 5643 approaches Glyndyfrdwy with the 11.00 Llangollen to Carrog Santa Special.
An Alco S1, redundant from use at the Margam Steelworks, Port Talbot, and still several thousand miles from home, mounted on a stub of track outside the former loco works at Oswestry, now a retail... (more)
LMS 5MT no. 45407 + BR Standard Class 4MT no. 76079 cross Knucklas viaduct with Railway Touring Company’s 1Z58 “The Central Wales Explorer” Leicester to Leicester via Shrewsbury and the Marc... (more)
“Pocket Rocket” BR Standard Class 4MT 76079 climbs past Friog with the 1J76 16.41 Porthmadog to Machynlleth. Note the remnants of its exhaust still lingering having stormed up the bank.