Welsh Highland Railway - April 04, 1983

Porthmadog Beddgelert Sidings site. Ruston and Hornsby diesel Kinnerly.

Welsh Highland Railway - April 04, 1983

Porthmadog Beddgelert Sidings site.

Welsh Highland Railway - April 04, 1983

Porthmadog Beddgelert Sidings site. Former Rhodesia Chrome Mines Peckett of 1942. Now known as KAREN. She became the first steam locomotive to operate on the Welsh Highland Railway (1964) Ltd line.

Welsh Highland Railway - April 04, 1983

Porthmadog Beddgelert Sidings site. Ruston and Hornsby diesel Kinnerly.

Welsh Highland Railway - April 04, 1983

Porthmadog Beddgelert Sidings site. Ruston and Hornsby diesel Kinnerly.

Welsh Highland Railway - July 26, 1990

The original WHR Bryn y Felin bridge.

Welsh Highland Railway - July 26, 1990

The WHR road bridge at Bryn y Felin near the Aberglaslyn pass, Beddgelert.

Welsh Highland Railway - July 26, 1990

The original WHR Bryn y Felin bridge showing how a foot bridge had been constructed withing the original steel work.

Welsh Highland Railway - July 26, 1990

Looking towards Bryn y Felin bridge from Aberglaslyn. Who would have thought that within 18 years of taking these photographs trains would be running once again?

Welsh Highland Railway - July 26, 1990

National Trust interpretation board at Bryn y Felin, Aberglaslyn, near Beddgelert.

Welsh Highland Railway - July 26, 1990

Looking along the WHR track bed down the Aberglaslyn pass towards Porthmadog.

Welsh Highland Railway - July 26, 1990

Approaching the Aberglaslyn tunnels looking towards Porthmadog.

Welsh Highland Railway - July 26, 1990

Aberglaslyn Pass - looking towards Beddgelert. A Blacker Bombard Mortar, issued to the Home Guard during the Second World War as an anti tank weapon, was installed on the WHR track bed after the track had been removed in 1941. The mounting post and metal pivot remain in place until the track was relayed some 17 years or so after this photograph was taken. The mortar mounting has been preserved being moved to the side of the track bed.

Welsh Highland Railway - July 26, 1990

The northern portal of Nantmor Tunnel, Aberglaslyn Pass.

Welsh Highland Railway - July 26, 1990

View from inside Nantmor tunnel, Aberglaslyn Pass.

Welsh Highland Railway - July 26, 1990

My late father, John William Luxton is seen near the southern portal of the Nantmor Tunnel. We had parked the car at Bryn y felin and walked the track bed to Nantmor through the tunnel. Unfortunately my father passed away in 2007 and didn't have the opportunity to travel through the tunnel though I was able to do it shortly after the WHR reopened through the Aberglaslyn Pass in 2008.

Welsh Highland Railway - July 26, 1990

Nantmor Level Crossing some 18 years before the WHR trains returned under the auspices of the Ffestiniog Railway Co.