The greatest railway in the world (again)…
It is with a little tongue in cheek but plenty of heart that I describe the Ffestiniog as ‘the greatest’. It certainly has claim to be the grandfather - as its the oldest operating railway company in the world. Its survival is a wonderful mix of industrial foresight, dogged determination and later passionate and visionary volunteers… I have, in the past few weeks, been experimenting with my phone. Rather than edit photos after taking them these are composed on the screen as we used to with a SLR, through the view finder. I’ve tried black and white, as it offers less distraction from the colours of our modern world. Only my second trip this year, and my son and I travelled from Blaenau on the Quarryman service in their new named nomenclature. This was very evocative of those early visits, as a child. We always travelled to Porthmadog and in my hazy memory it was always Linda, my favourite, who was my first Ffestiniog engine, to be repeated yesterday… (however, it transpired that I...
