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The locomotive carried fleet number '4' in reference to its position on its home railway, although the number also matched its position on the Vale of Rheidol, as the fourth locomotive. When the line was acquired by the Great Western Railway, the leased locomotive was no longer required and was returned to Ffestiniog (from where it was ...
The Vale of Rheidol Railway (Welsh: Rheilffordd Cwm Rheidol) is a 1 ft 11 + 3 ⁄ 4 in (603 mm) narrow gauge heritage railway in Ceredigion, Wales, between Aberystwyth and Devil's Bridge; a journey of 11 + 3 ⁄ 4 miles (18.9 km).
The GWR Rheidol Tanks are a fleet of 2-6-2 T steam locomotives of the Great Western Railway design built between 1923 and 1924. They were designed by the railway's Chief Mechanical Engineer, Charles Collett, for working services on the Vale of Rheidol Railway between Aberystwyth and Devil's Bridge (Pontarfynach).
The workshop building, completed in 2014 is a major asset to the railway and now employs a number of skilled craftsmen and apprentices. The workshop has completed the restoration of a number of locomotives as well as carrying out maintenance of the Vale of Rheidol fleet. The workshop regularly holds open days.
This is a list of the stations and halts on the Vale of Rheidol Railway (Welsh: Rheilffordd Cwm Rheidol), a 1 ft 11 + 3 ⁄ 4 in (603 mm) narrow gauge preserved railway line running for 11 + 3 ⁄ 4 miles (18.9 km) from Aberystwyth on the Mid-Wales coast to Devil's Bridge in the Cambrian Mountains.
Rheidol, formerly named Treze de Maio and Talybont, was a 2-4-0 T steam locomotive built by W.G. Bagnall in Staffordshire, England, in 1896.Originally built to a gauge of 2 ft 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (750 mm), it was for a Brazilian sugar plantation, however the order was cancelled before it was exported.
The British Rail Class 98 is a Total Operations Processing System (TOPS) classification that has been used to cover all steam locomotives used on the mainline in Britain, but also has a particular usage for the three Vale of Rheidol Railway-design 2-6-2 T locomotives that remained in the ownership of British Rail (BR) after the end of mainline steam traction in August 1968.
Three locomotives of 1 ft 11 + 3 ⁄ 4 in (603 mm) gauge were acquired from the Vale of Rheidol Railway as part of the Cambrian Railways at the grouping, but only one survived to be privatised from British Rail in 1989: