Celebrating our rich history as one of the first narrow gauge passenger railways!

The Talyllyn’s annual Heritage Weekend continues our 75th anniversary celebrations.

With a mixture of themed trains representing different eras and parts of the Talyllyn’s history, focusing on pre-preservation on the Saturday and early preservation on the Sunday, there will also be displays relating to the Talyllyn and wider narrow gauge and slate history of Wales along, and near, the railway.

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Saturday – ‘Service Era’ Recreations

Saturday will see our original 1860s Carriages (V Set) out and about on multiple services, with our Corris Coaches (D Set) providing a flavour of traffic from our neighbouring Railway. In addition to these, the first train of the day will run as a mixed train with the 1860s Carriage and Heritage Waggons, and in the early afternoon a shuttle service will run between Abergynolwyn and Nant Gwernol.

The Talyllyn’s two Victorian Fletcher Jennings locomotives will run alongside those purchased from the neighbouring Corris Railway, recreating trains that all four would have pulled while in revenue-earning service before the Preservation Society was formed.

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Sunday – ‘Preservation Era’ Recreations

Sunday moves our recreations into the 1950’s. Alongside the Vintage Set, we will be running Shoppers’ Specials (S Set) between Wharf and Brynglas – short trains put on for the benefit of the local community to travel into Tywyn for Shopping, these will be hauled by our Heritage Diesel No.5 ‘Midlander’.

There are also two demonstration Goods Trains – showcasing the time when the Preservation Society put the railways’ fleet of wagons to work moving supplies and equipment for the urgent service of maintaning and re-laying the entire permanent way. One of these trains will run to Brynglas, and the other to Abergynolwyn.

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Extra Activities – Saturday Only

The National Slate Museum will be hosting Slate Splitting Demonstrations on the platform at Abergynolwyn between 10am & 3:30pm

Wharf Café will be open until 8pm serving hot foods and drinks, and between 6:00pm and 7:30pm there will be a film show featuring footage from the TRPS’ Films Archive.

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Tickets are available to book now & are valid on all trains, normal fares apply:

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