At 2.23 am 97301 prepares to depart Machynlleth on the third drag to Dovey Junction in order for 97303 to undertake the ERTMS wheelslip/odometer calibration tests on the return.

While it's not strictly a triple-headed train as the 97/3s were dead-in-tow, it's still very rare to have three locos a the front of a train on the Cambrian, and the last time this was thought to ... (more)

47826 stands at Aberystwyth having arrived with WCRC/Kirklees Green Party/Green Express Railtours’ 1Z76 “The Midsummer Cambrian Coast Express” from Leeds.

47804 crosses the 15mph-restricted Clettwr bridge with WCRC/Kirklees Green Party/Green Express Railtours’ 1Z76 06.29 Leeds to Aberystwyth “The Midsummer Cambrian Coast Express,” becoming the... (more)

97301 crosses the River Severn at Caersws returning with the 5Z97 11.58 Aberystwyth to Shrewsbury Howard Street.

97301 crosses the A470 at Caersws returning with the 5Z97 11.58 Aberystwyth to Shrewsbury Howard Street. These and other semaphores on the line will become redundant once ERTMS is commissioned, th... (more)

97301 passes Glanhafren, Welshpool on the 08.28 5Z97 Shrewsbury Howard Street to Aberystwyth. Note the newly relaid double track, having been lifted in the 1960s.

97301 passes Carno returning with the 5Z97 11.58 Aberystwyth to Shrewsbury Howard Street.

97301 passes the Dovey National Nature Reserve at Borth on the 08.28 5Z97 Shrewsbury Howard Street to Aberystwyth.

97301 creaks over the trestle bridge over the River Artro at Pensarn on the return 0Z97 14.29 Pwllheli to Shrewsbury Coleham route learning train, the first time that a Class 97/3 has run up the c... (more)

NGG16 Garratt no. 143 threads through the Aberglaslyn Pass having just exited the tunnel with the 13.40 Hafod y Llyn to Caernarfon. This is the narrowest part of the pass, where the railway, River... (more)

NGG16 Garratt no. 87 heads through the Aberglaslyn Pass with the 14.30 Caernarfon to Hafod y Llyn.

NGG16 Garratt no. 143 heads through the Aberglaslyn Pass with the 11.35 Caernarfon to Hafod y Llyn on the first sunny day since the pass opened for passenger traffic.

GWR 4-6-0 “Castle” Class no.s 5043 “Earl of Mount Edgcumbe” and 5029 “Nunney Castle” climb towards Church Stretton on Vintage Trains’ “The Welsh Marches Express” 1Z56 10.00 Shrew... (more)

The entire train. 97301 and 37676 “Loch Rannoch” pass Forden on Spitfire Tours’ 1Z50 05.26 Bristol Temple Meads to Aberystwyth “The Cambrian Mountaineer” with D444 “Exeter” on the re... (more)