Dee-lightful Journeys
3802 arrives at a sunny Corwen. From my first encounter in my youth when we were met with the sight of a gleaming LMS Jinty, t he Llangollen Railway has been a favourite standard gauge heritage railway of mine. Characterful stations in glorious scenery and some decent gradients to hear the loco work, what’s not to like? Since then, my ride on the GWR Steam Railmotor was at Llangollen and my only experiences to date of GWR Autocar Push Pull working was there. A highlight was when a group of Talyllyn volunteers had a week on the Llangollen Canal. During the mid week turnaround at Llangollen we took a ride on the train and each ended up enjoying a footplate ride on diminutive pannier tank 6430. There have been rides behind the Dukedog, City of Truro and even Morayshire. Then there was the trip over for the Croes Newydd gala with the Mogul and 1638. Scampering along behind 1638 in a compartment coach is the closest I’ll ever get to the old Cardigan or Blaenau branches, ma...
