Our Life In Eryri / Snowdonia
All posts about steam engines and heritage railways
In order to honour Railway 200 (celebrating 200 years since the first ever railway service), a weekend of of train stuff was held at the Alstom works in Derby. Why “The Greatest Gathering”? Well it was exactly that…the greatest gathering of all things railways! Volunteering I had wanted to […]
I’m currently on a bit of a comedown after attending a wonderful weekend of filming at the Ffestiniog Railway*. On the weekend of 20-22nd June we were celebrating 70 years of preservation on the Ffestiniog Railway. As part of Moving Media Team I was filming most of it. So here’s […]
There’s a well known Welsh nursery rhyme which featured the Isle of Man… Fuoch chi erioed yn morio? Wel do mewn padell ffrio. Cwythodd y gwynt fi’r Isle of Man A dyna lle bum i’n crio. … translates as “Have you ever been sailing?, Wel yes, in a frying pan; […]
Despite having been to Rhyl on multiple occasions and holidayed in Towyn during my childhood, I had never visit Rhyl Miniature Railway! So over Easter weekend we took a trip over to Rhyl to visit the Rhyl Miniature Railway. Brief History The Rhyl Miniature Railway was opened in 1911 – […]
Recently I had a trip down to the Talyllyn Railway, not for a leisure trip but this time I was invited to attend the official launch of The 75 Appeal. I’ll explain more about the 75 Appeal shortly but I have to say that the launch day was great! (For […]
Another weekend in the Lake District saw me looking to visit some sort of train related activity. I had seen some wonderful photos of steam engines at Threlkeld Quarry & Mining Museum so I thought why the hell not. Unfortunately the timing didn’t work out for me as they weren’t […]
