Having spent a lot of time this year photographing the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, it's been nice to go a little further afield and get some pics back on the Ffestiniog in Wales. The fact the area has been named a Unesco site for the heritage of the slate industry gave me (Ben) all the excuse I needed to nip out one afternoon and get some pics...
First stop was up at Tanygrisau, where me and Elder Child headed up the road to the hydro-electric dam for a shot of one of the recently-reintroduced services to Blaenau Ffestiniog.
We headed down to Tanybwlch straight after, mainly for a brew and some of the wonderful cakes from the station cafe.
Replica/new-build "Lyd" was running-round when we arrived. Haven't seen this loco for a while, so it was good to get some pics of it in the sunshine.
We hung around for the arrival of "Blanche" (one of my favourite locomotives) with an afternoon trip from Porthmadog.
Not bad for a quick afternoon out, the Ffestiniog can usually be relied upon to provide an interesting variety of trains to be photographed, and the fact the weather was so nice really added to the day.
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