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The Narrow Gauge Railway Museum collection began in the 1950s when the Talyllyn Railway Preservation Society (TRPS) was the first voluntary society in the world to take over and run a public passenger carrying railway. Narrow-gauge railways were becoming redundant and their equipment scrapped. Immediately, items from other narrow-gauge lines ...
The Talyllyn Railway (Welsh: Rheilffordd Talyllyn) is a narrow-gauge railway in Wales running for 7 + 1 ⁄ 4 miles (12 km) [1] from Tywyn [a] on the Mid-Wales coast to Nant Gwernol near the village of Abergynolwyn.
Video showing all steam and diesel locomotives departing Tywyn Wharf. This is a list of past and present rolling stock used on the Talyllyn Railway (Welsh: Rheilffordd Talyllyn), a 2 ft 3 in (686 mm) narrow gauge preserved railway line running for 7.25 miles (11.67 km) [1] from Tywyn on the Mid-Wales coast to Nant Gwernol near the village of Abergynolwyn.
A map of the Talyllyn Railway. This is a list of the stations and halts on the Talyllyn Railway (Welsh: Rheilffordd Talyllyn), a 2 ft 3 in (686 mm) narrow gauge preserved railway line running for 7.25 miles (11.67 km) [1] from Tywyn on the Mid-Wales coast to Nant Gwernol near the village of Abergynolwyn.
The original TR plans included a spur into the standard gauge station called 'Railway No 2', but in the end it wasn't necessary, traffic wasn't sufficient and the powers to build it lapsed. The earliest recorded passenger train from Wharf was in 1877, though there is circumstantial evidence of them even earlier than that. [ 2 ]
Locomotive No.4 Edward Thomas stands at Tywyn Wharf station. The Talyllyn Railway was built in 1865 and ran from Towyn (now called Tywyn) to the slate quarries of Bryn Eglwys, only a few miles from Corris. It was built to the same gauge as the Corris Railway, but unlike that line used steam traction from the start.
The Talyllyn Railway is a 2 ft 3 in (686 mm) narrow-gauge railway, opened in 1865 to carry slate from the quarries at Bryn Eglwys to Tywyn (then spelt Towyn) on the Welsh coast. The quarries had closed by 1946 and the railway was in very poor state of repair; very little maintenance had been carried out for many years. [3]
In 1960 Townsend Hook was acquired by the London Area Group of the Narrow Gauge Railway Society and moved to Sheffield Park station goods yard on the then-newly preserved Bluebell Railway. Townsend Hook was the first loco to be based on the Bluebell Railway in the preservation era, arriving around a month before the famous LB&SCR A1 class loco ...