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The Talyllyn Railway is represented in The Railway Series books by the Reverend W. Awdry and its television adaptation Thomas & Friends as the Skarloey Railway; most of the fictional locomotives are based on real-life equivalents. Awdry visited the line on a family holiday in the early days of preservation and became involved as a volunteer ...
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.
The Railway Series is a series of British books about a railway known as the North ... The Skarloey books often included a promotion for the Talyllyn Railway, either ...
This book is a companion volume to the Railway Series, providing comprehensive biographies of the characters within the books and exploring the origins of the stories. Like The Island of Sodor: Its People, History and Railways, it included aspects of the fictional universe that were never featured in the Railway Series stories. It described the ...
The Talyllyn Railway ordered two locomotives for its opening in 1865, Talyllyn and Dolgoch. Both were built by Fletcher, Jennings & Co. of Whitehaven, although to two very different designs. Talyllyn was the first order the company had delivered to north Wales and the first narrow gauge locomotive they had built with plate frames. [3]
The North Western Railway (NWR) is the main standard gauge rail network on the Island of Sodor. The railway's motto is "Nil Unquam Simile", which is Latin for "There's nothing quite like it". From nationalisation on January 1, 1948, until it was privatised, the railway was the North Western Region of British Railways (BR). From 1925 onwards, it ...
Talyllyn Railway Tywyn to Nant Gwernol, Wales Built in 1865, this steam-powered line through the Welsh countryside and Snowdonia National Park became the world's first historically preserved ...
Dolgoch holds an important place in railway preservation history as it was the only serviceable locomotive on the Talyllyn Railway when it became the first preserved railway to be operated by volunteers, in 1951. Dolgoch kept the railway going during this first season. [3] [page needed]