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Hi All,
The Welsh Highland Railway (one part of the Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railway) has just run its first (trial) steam train down the Aberglaslyn Pass in Wales.
I have attached a small and much compressed photo copy from the site below wjich has the news and a much better view of this photo; explainung with daily changes where the tracklaying is up to - almost complete is a short version; much to do yet but the track is almost in and through Porthmadog.
Enjoy, and please have a look at the excellent site from which the picture has been taken - here is the link -
http://www.isengard.co.uk/
There is also another site equally as good at the following -
http://whr.bangor.ac.uk/
Contractors have done the groundwork, as they have the expertise and heavy plant that has made the resurrection much easier, and volunteers are laying the track back to its old (& much improved to 21st century requirements!) trackbed. It opens in 2009, when there will be 40 miles of virtually continuious narrow gauge track in wales. All change at Porthmadog - the FR has a much smaller clearance envelope but is the same gauge - it was built for horses NOT steam trains, and still retains the original clearances.
OK this is a plug; I am not involved (too old!) but a trumpet (or three) ought to be blown for all the people involved
The Welsh Highland Railway (one part of the Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railway) has just run its first (trial) steam train down the Aberglaslyn Pass in Wales.
I have attached a small and much compressed photo copy from the site below wjich has the news and a much better view of this photo; explainung with daily changes where the tracklaying is up to - almost complete is a short version; much to do yet but the track is almost in and through Porthmadog.
Enjoy, and please have a look at the excellent site from which the picture has been taken - here is the link -
http://www.isengard.co.uk/
There is also another site equally as good at the following -
http://whr.bangor.ac.uk/
Contractors have done the groundwork, as they have the expertise and heavy plant that has made the resurrection much easier, and volunteers are laying the track back to its old (& much improved to 21st century requirements!) trackbed. It opens in 2009, when there will be 40 miles of virtually continuious narrow gauge track in wales. All change at Porthmadog - the FR has a much smaller clearance envelope but is the same gauge - it was built for horses NOT steam trains, and still retains the original clearances.
OK this is a plug; I am not involved (too old!) but a trumpet (or three) ought to be blown for all the people involved