Our Life In Eryri / Snowdonia
All posts about steam engines and heritage railways
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 […]
Every year I do a “railway bucket list” and the is my 2024 railway bucket list. It still includes some items from the 2023 bucket list. Great Little Trains of Wales I want to tick off a few more Welsh railways and I thought the best way to do this […]
There’s been a lot of talk about reopening the Bangor to Afonwen and the Aberystwyth to Carmarthen line in the press recently. According to this article, it would cost £2bn to reinstate these lines. So my question is, is this really feasible? If these lines reopen then would people ditch […]
