RD25832vid. Welsh Highland Railway Centenary Celebrations, part 4.

RD25832vid. 100 years ago, on the 1st June, 1923, the 2 foot gauge Welsh Highland Railway reached Portmadoc (now Porthmadog) and joined up with the Festiniog Railway (spelt with only one F in those days) at the Harbour Station.

The present day Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways organisation celebrated this event with a gala 100 years later over the weekend 23rd to 25th June, 2023 and amongst the special trains run during the event was a recreation of a test train with two Double-Fairlie 0-4-4-0Ts DAVID LLOYD GEORGE and MERDDIN EMRYS.

The normal day to day service trains ran as usual and one of these is then seen arriving at Porthmadog behind South African Railways liveried 2-6-2 + 2-6-2 Beyer-Garratt No.87.

George England 0-4-0ST/T WELSH PONY was also in action with a 1920s style train set and this replicated the early years of the Welsh Highland’s return to Porthmadog in 2011 when there was only one platform at Harbour Station. At that time, the WHR trains were pulled out onto The Cob by a small or shunting locomotive and the Garratt was then hooked onto the Caernarfon end for the journey north. In this case, however, it was the Garratt that pulled the lightweight train out onto The Cob and WELSH PONY then took it non-stop through the Platform 2 loop and onto the WHR. (Somehow, I manager to miss that – I think that I was drying out in the station shop!)

*** To be continued...

Friday, 23rd June, 2023. Copyright © Ron Fisher 2023.

***More Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railway videos can be seen here:

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Taken in: UK / Wales / Porthmadog / Portmadoc (show map)

Taken on: June 23, 2023

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