Ffestiniog Steam 150 : May 3rd-6th

Thought you may all be interested to see a snipit of the preperations for the Steam 150 event on the Ffestiniog Railway which is on the May Bank Holiday 3rd-6th. Here Kilo is seen practicing for his staring role in the opening ceremony of the event(think along the lines of the olympics, but with trains). A dedicated website has been set up see it HERE. We've also unloaded lots of slate waggons so there is a rare opportunity to see England engines on exactly the train (40 odd empties) which they were designed and built to pull, there's still going to be a reasonable length gravity train to enjoy.

We're celebrating the first succesful application of locomotives on the narrow gauge, the day we proved some of the great engineers of the era wrong. Surely a must for most narrow gauge enthusiasts.

It may interest you that the language from 1863 is still alive in FR staff today, you can always spot a true FR man because they will refer to engines as 'the Merddin Emrys', this stretches back to when Prince & Princess were The Prince & The Princess.