Personally I don't think the VofR station at Aber blends well with it's surroundings at all. It's very in your face and luminous. It doesn't look...
Just in case people were interested. 134 is now starting to be used on service trains from this week. It is working the Gelert Explorer...
Unfortunately the booking fee is imposed by the fare harbour system. It is their cut for using their product basically and the system doesn't let...
There is electric car charging at Tesco and at the Cambrian station. If you stay at the sportsman hotel they also have a supercharger. Just to...
They stopped collecting waste oil themselves but that didn't mean stopped burning it. Usually it was just whatever was cheapest and flammable....
It depends how much you turned it up. On tickover they were quite quiet. If you were on The Square and as usual having a big blow up at Tanybwlch...
It's worth noting that it's now 20 years since the FR decided to go back to coal firing and this is the first time the service has actually been...
The Beddgelert to Rhyd Ddu is mostly 10 and 15mph speed limits whereas Dinas to Tryfan Jn is 20mph. Which is why you get a faster run up one bank...
All trains still running as advertised. Crews have been out spraying the lineside with water on the WHR especially in the grassy/gorse areas this...
Given the cost of oil vs coal though it will still be a very niche. You'd be better off fitting your austerity with good spark arresting equipment...
Russell has already had an extension due to not being used during covid.
A bit of loco news. 590 arrived back at Gelerts Farm via Minffordd today following repairs at the Vale of Rheidol. There's now a glut of locos...
How much money have you got? It would be quite a project to get that running but never say never. 133 needs a new boiler. The exterior of the ex...
Adhesion is an known limitation with these locos vs an NGG16. So a lot of work has gone into fitting good sanders and making the regulator very...
Whilst on the subject of FR internal combustion locos. KS 4415 took a big leap forward this week. Over 800 hot rivets we're fitted to the bonnet...
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