Museum Accreditation Train - 11 July 2010

Pictures from the special train...

Congratulations to the Narrow Gauge Railway Museum on gaining Museum, Libraries and Archive Accreditation. On Sunday 11 July there was a special train to celebrate the occasion carrying invited guests from the various organisations involved.

The first picture shows the train at Wharf with the set of original TR coaches, slate wagons and coach 7 on the rear in order to meet current operating requirements. In pre preservation days trains ran with only the wagons behind the brake van. The loco is No.1, Talyllyn.

The second view is of the slate wagons taken from coach 7 climbing towards Cynfal halt.

At Rhydyronen coach 7 was detached so the train would be in genuine pre-preservation formation. The participants de-trained to take photos of the train and the newly re-painted station.

At Dolgoch coach 7 was again detached prior to the train taking water at the old column. The guests assembled in front of the engine for a group photograph. Included are the staff from the Gwynedd Archives office in Dolgellau, where the Talyllyn Railway and Narrow Gauge Railway Museum archives are kept, past and present trustees of the NGRMT, volunteers who man the museum and maintain the premises and exhibits. In the red jacket by the is John Milner, a former trustee and the publisher of John Bate's book on the TR, Chronicles of Pendre Sidings, and in the front row, wearing the hat, Alan Holmes, whose history of the TRPS, Talyllyn Revived, has just been published. Extreme right on the front row, Sara Eade, has just published a detailed study of the Ratgoed valley and quarries, served by the Corris Railway.

Finally some of the party posed in the slate wagons. In the right hand wagon are Alan Holmes, Keith Theobold, NGRMT chairman and on the nearside of the wagon Don Newing, NGRMT secretary. In the left hand wagon are people from the Dolgellau Archives and Adrian, one of the museum volunteers.

Thank you to David Mitchell for the article and photos.

The train at Wharf Station

View from the back of the train near Cynfal

The train at Rhydyronen Station

Group picture by the engine at Dolgoch

Group picture sitting in the slate wagons at Dolgoch