Honestly, drought-stricken nations could pay us to come on holiday. After weeks of dry, warm, windy weather, and railways having to ban steam haulage because of the fire risk, our arrival in Wales heralded rainfall to levels which prompted Yellow Met-Office Alerts.
Anyway, a positive for us meant some steam haulage on the Talyllyn Railway, which we were visiting to get a load of reference pics for upcoming Garden Rail Magazine articles.
No.1 "Tal Y Llyn" doing the honours on our train, pictured running-round at Nant Gwernol Station.
We did a round-trip of the line...
...photographing quite a lot from the windows, that we want to replicate on our garden line.
"Tom Rolt" passing.
More photographs from the train, things we might want to model.
The main target for the visit, "Edward Thomas". We have our eye on a model of this rather wonderful ex-Corris Railway locomotive which we're planning to pick up at the Llangollen show.
The Talyllyn is one of those railways which has an important place in the history of rail travel in the UK, and it was great to pay a visit. Plenty of inspiration for upcoming articles, and lots of photographs taken...
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