Tan-y-Bwlch
UK Railtours' charter from Blaenau Ffestiniog to Caernarfon, during a brief stop at Tan-y-Bwlch on 6th April 2019. The original Ffestiniog Railway had a policy of trains at loop stations using the right hand track and this continues today, with the Welsh Highland Railway also using this practice. I first visited here as a boy on a family holiday in north Wales in August 1965 when it was the temporary terminus for trains from Portmadoc (as it was then called). The line from Penrhyn reopened to Tan-y-Bwlch in 1958 and this remained the terminus until the extension to Dduallt in 1968. Blaenau Ffestiniog was finally reached in 1982, fulfilling the dream to reopen the line in full which had started in 1954 with the reinstatement of just the short section across The Cob from Portmadoc Harbour to Boston Lodge.
Location: Tan-y-Bwlch
Original line: Festiniog Railway
Photographer: David Bosher
Contact photographer: David Bosher
Photosets: Ffestiniog Railway 2016 and 2019 Welsh stations, National and Heritage Lines 1980-2022
Date: 06/04/2019
Image number: 84026
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