Fairbourne Railway
Last year I spent a week on the Welsh coast with my daughter Julia. I must have been one of the few people in Britain never to have holidayed there before and it was fun.
Here's a very small railway that was only a couple of miles from our cottage - the Fairbourne Railway. At 12" gauge it's more miniature than narrow gauge and it only runs two miles from Fairmourne station out to the point at the mouth of the Mawddach estuary. Goes nowhere basically, but you can catch a boat the few hundred yards across to Barmouth if you are inclined. You can find their web site here.
Some of their locos are rather nice and I especially like this one. It's a third size model of a real narrow gauge engine that ran on the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway down in Devon and was sadly closed back in the 1930's.
Great place to walk the dog too!
posted by Iain @ 2:05 AM
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The Fairbourne railway is a delight! So small and yet set in such 'big' country. Here's a picture I took prior to catching the boat back to Barmouth: http://thomaskelly.blogspot.com/2005/09/picture-fairbourne-and-barmouth.html
TSÓC.
A lovely enginge to look at but not the most comfortable in the cab as its a bit small. But shes great as long as you don't forget to fire to the front of the box not just the back.
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