Yesterday was ‘business as usual’ weather wise, in North Wales. Welsh sunshine from wall to wall, Blaenau to Porthmadog…
I enjoyed a trip on the Quarryman service that leaves Blaenau about 11:40am and returns arriving back about 16:40pm with a few hours lay over in Porthmadog. The rain put pay to plans of walking some of the coast path so instead a stroll with a brolly down to the Heritage railway and a pleasant hour with a short ride behind 590 and a chance to see Gelert and the Romanian built diesels.
Back at Spooners, disappointed to have missed the best of the cakes we jumped on board and headed for home, marvelling at the number of trains and locomotives in steam. Lyd had returned with the Red Dragon stock after its summer at Dinas and Welsh Pony and Britomart were on a Woodland Wanderer. Wet rails were interesting, Linda coped admirably. All in all, a wonderful day out - and lovely to bump into Ribbons contributor and blog regular Matt at Port, hopefully we’ll have a chance to catch up properly next time!
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| Transport for Wales 197/0 waiting for departure to Llandudno Junction whilst our train, left, gathers some extra passengers… the light in the rain is always magical. |
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| Crossing the Mountain Spirit at Tan-y-grisau shortly after leaving. |
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| James Spooner and one of the Woodland Wanderer sets at Tan-y-bwlch, taken as we were passing. |
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| Baldwin 590 at WH(H)R Porthmadog. Beautiful paint work! |
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| I am so pleased these three (red one not pictured) Lyd2 survived. I’m not sure all three are runners, but understand at least one of these blue ones is… that would be something to witness! |
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| Gelert and a steam test. Always thought these little tank engines were rather pretty. |
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| Another TfW train, waiting at Porthmadog. Not sure how long it had to wait, seemed to be quite a long one! No wonder the trip to Pwllheli takes so long?! |
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| Lyd at Port with Red Dragon stock (and headboard!). |
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| Welsh Pony post repairs with Britomart shaped insurance run around a second Woodland Wanderer stock at Porthmadog. |
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| Our train pulls out of the carriage sidings before propelling back over to the platform for our return journey. |
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