Monthly Archives: August 2010

D9521 arrives!

Our visiting loco arrived safely at Llangollen on Wednesday 25th August. Photos by Simon Searle, taken Thursday 26th, showing D9521 keeping D6940 company on shed.

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Ted in Transit!

Our visiting locomotive for 2010, Class 14 No D9521 will be arriving at the Railway ahead of schedule. All being well, she will leave the Gwili Railway today (Tuesday 24th) and be with us by Wednesday. As a reminder, her scheduled running … Continue reading

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Remember D1566?

After spending most of the last 12 months in store, a working party are looking at our Class 47 today with a view to effecting short term repairs to the coolant system so she can be available for use at … Continue reading

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Rat Basher of the Year Award Trophy?

  Here’s your chance to own a piece of former LDG machine 25313. This small and rather crusty part of one of the diagonal body braces around the cooler group area has been cut from the loco to be replaced … Continue reading

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D6940 Charter Announced: The Glyndyfrdwy Growler

I’m very pleased to announce that the Growler Group and ourselves are jointly organising a 6 return trip charter day with D6940 on Saturday the 16th October.    This is in addition to the BR Blue EE Type 3 working at our diesel weekend. Nearly 100 … Continue reading

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D5310 gets her big music break on two tone percussion

Call Pete Waterman and let’s get her on X-Factor!

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DIESEL WEEKEND 3rd & 4th of October

Hot on the heels of a very successful 1960’s weekend which saw a very shiny D6940 return to traffic in splendid form, I am pleased to provide some information about our diesel weekend in October. We are delighted to announce … Continue reading

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1960’s Weekend – a big thank you

The Group would like to offer our sincere thanks to all who supported the event. We had a great time and hope you did to! Both D5310 and D6940 performed well with their steam and unit companions. Initial indications show that the event did very … Continue reading

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