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	Talyllyn Railway - Definition, explanation
		The Talyllyn Railway (Welsh: Rheilffordd Talyllyn) is a narrow gauge (686mm, 2'3") railway line running for 7¼ miles (11.67km) from Tywyn on the Mid-Wales coast to Nant Gwernol.
		However, the Talyllyn's unusual gauge was probably adopted because of the Corris.
		In 1951 they reopened the railway, thus being the first volunteer group to preserve an existing railway of any kind.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/t/ta/talyllyn_railway.php (444 words)

	Talyllyn Railway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Talyllyn Railway (Welsh: Rheilffordd Talyllyn) is a 2 ft 3 in (686 mm) narrow gauge preserved railway line running for 7¼ miles (11.67km) from Tywyn on the Mid-Wales coast to Nant Gwernol.
		The Talyllyn Railway is represented in The Railway Series by Rev.
		Talyllyn - Vale of Glamorgan - Vale of Rheidol - Welsh Highland - Welshpool and Llanfair
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talyllyn_Railway (1041 words)

	Talyllyn Railway: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Tywyn is a town in the traditional county of merionethshire, southern gwynedd, north wales, lying on the river talyllyn and cardigan bay....
		The snowdon mountain railway is a narrow gauge rack and pinion mountain railway in wales....
		The welsh highland railway is a narrow gauge railway in wales....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/ta/talyllyn_railway.htm (1319 words)

	Corris Railway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The railway opened as the horse-worked Corris, Machynlleth and River Dovey Tramroad in 1859, connecting the slate quarries in the district around Corris,Corris Uchaf and Aberllefenni with wharves on the estuary of the Afon Dyfi at Derwenlas and Morben, south-west of Machynlleth.
		The two remaining locomotives and several goods wagons were purchased by the newly preserved Talyllyn Railway which shares the unusual 2 ft 3 in (686 mm) gauge.
		The principal reason for the existence of the Corris Railway was to serve the slate quarries of this district.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Corris_Railway_Society (1987 words)

	Talyllyn Railway
		Bryncrug to Talyllyn Lake alongside the railway for
		Because of tight clearances the Railway Inspector required the railway to move the track southwards, seal the doors and fit bars to the windows on the south side.
		From the Glyn Valley Tramway came 2 four-wheeled coaches (painted green) and from the Corris railway came the brown bogie coach and the brown brake van.
	www.aberdovey.com /railway2.html (684 words)

	Talyllyn Railway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Talyllyn was the first Welsh narrow-gauge railway to be taken over by a preservation society, formed in 1950, almost straightaway after the original railway officially closed, in Ocotber 1950.
		The existence of the railway could be attributed to the desire of a Manchester cotton firm to diverse into other areas, because it was suffering from the effects of the American Civil War.
		The railway was purchased by Henry Haydn Jones in 1910.
	bdaugherty.tripod.com /railways/talyllyn.html (354 words)

	Christopher Awdry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		I was born in Devizes, Wiltshire in 1940, the son of the Rev.
		Because the Talyllyn Railway is single track, except at the passing loops, this is an important job for the safety of trains and passengers.
		In 2002 I was privileged to be elected President of the Talyllyn Railway Preservation Society.
	www.aran48.dsl.pipex.com /christo.htm (382 words)

	Talyllyn Railway: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Snowdon Mountain Railway (The snowdon mountain railway is a narrow gauge rack and pinion mountain railway in wales....)
		Welsh Highland Railway (The welsh highland railway is a narrow gauge railway in wales....)
		Schynige Platte Railway (The schynige platte railway or schynige platte bahn (spb) is a mountain railway in the bernese oberland...)
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /ref/talyllyn_railway (1448 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| John Slater
		John Slater, who has died aged 76, devoted his life to railway trains and to Britain's rail heritage; he worked at Railway Magazine for more than a third of the journal's 107-year existence, including almost 20 years as its editor, and he was one the country's most stalwart, long-serving railway volunteers.
		He greatly broadened Railway Magazine's appeal: a somewhat dry, factual journal, given to much recording of detail, became, under Slater's stewardship, a magazine that covered all aspects of the railway industry, from earliest times to the most modern.
		Rather than retire from Railway Magazine at 60, Slater, whose knowledge of railways matters was encyclopaedic, stayed on as a consultant three days a week, archiving, indexing and compiling four sections a month.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/08/21/db2102.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/08/21/ixportal.html (719 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Pat Garland
		None of the survivors was more neglected or obscure than the narrow gauge Talyllyn Railway, built in 1865 to carry slate from the hills surrounding Cardigan Bay to the Cambrian Railway, then reaching Tywyn.
		After the war he installed a large model railway in his loft and a steady stream of visitors arrived to admire the latest developments and puff contentedly on their pipes.
		The acquisition of an allotment by the railway station and trips to work by train kept Garland in touch with the railway fraternity, who continued to benefit from his unofficial duties.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/01/31/db3103.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/01/31/ixportal.html (763 words)

	Talyllyn Railway in West Wales
		The Talyllyn is a coal fired steam operated narrow gauge railway, opened in 1866 to transport slate from Bryn Eglwys quarry to the Cambrian Railway at Tywyn.
		In 1951, the line was taken over by the Talyllyn Railway Preservation Society, the first Railway Preservation Society in the world, who have maintained and operated the line ever since.
		The main station, Tywyn Wharf, is situated at Tywyn, Gwynedd, on the Cambrian Coast (on the A493 Dolgellau to Machynlleth road).
	www.croeso.com /railway.html (593 words)

	VideoList
		Ffestiniog Railway (A Celebration of Forty Years): This video was shot in 1995, during the celebrations of forty years of preservation of the FR.
		Talyllyn Railway: The 2' 3" gauge TR is the first of the British preserved railways.
		Railways: The Vale of Rheidol Railway was opened in 1902 and has been in continuous operation ever since.
	www.gwtc.net /~mdecker/videolist.html (861 words)

	BBC - North West Wales Tywyn - Talyllyn Railway
		"The Talyllyn Railway was opened in 1865 to carry slate rom the quarry at Bryn Eglwys to Tywyn for shipment to the newly built mainline coast railway.
		The notion that a public railway could be operated and run by a group of amateur railway enthusiasts was considered wildly optimistic in 1950.
		Natural challenges have effected the railway in the form of landslips, gale-damage and flash floods, which have often stretched the volunteers' skills, energy and determination; but in true Talyllyn style the service has always been maintained.
	www.bbc.co.uk /wales/northwest/sites/tywyn/pages/talyllyn.shtml (545 words)

	The Talyllyn Railway
		The 2'3" gauge Talyllyn Railway has its headquarters at the lower terminus of Wharf Station in Tywyn (or Towyn) on the West coast of North Wales, not to be confused with the other Towyn on the north coast.
		Oddly the steepest part of the railway is behind the train now and yet it is from here on that the train comes out onto the open valley side and the passenger begins to get a feeling of the scale of the scenery in which the tiny train is almost lost.
		Although not the first enthusiast run railway and not the first rolling stock to be preserved the Talyllyn was the first railway in the world to be preserved in-situ by volunteers.
	www.narrow-gauge-pleasure.co.uk /rlytalyllyn.html (1046 words)

	Talyllyn Railway
		The Talyllyn is a coal fired steam operated narrow gauge railway, opened in 1866 to transport slate from Bryn Eglwys quarry to the Cambrian Railway at Tywyn.
		In 1951, the line was taken over by the Talyllyn Railway Preservation Society, the first Railway Preservation Society in the world, who have maintained and operated the line ever since.
		In the Narrow Gauge Railway Museum well maintained exhibits of every aspect of narrow gauge equipment from locomotives to signals is complemented by a visual display of slate quarrying development and transport.
	www.aberdovey.com /railway.html (593 words)

	Minutes: 20th October 2000 - The Talyllyn Railway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Gauge is was 2'3", the gauge used in local slate mines, and on a horse tramway which eventually became the Corris Railway.
		The Rev. W., Awdry's Skarloey Railway is based on the locomotives used on the line - over the years 3 and 4 have been repainted into red with faces at the front.
		As on the Skarloey railway, number 4 was fitted with a Giesel ejector, but this made little impact- she was efficient enough to start with.
	www.cam.ac.uk /societies/curc/archive/mn201000.htm (532 words)

	Forestry Commission - News - woodland walks enhance railway experience
		Both the Forestry Commission - which acquired much of the surrounding land when the railway was handed over to the Talyllyn Railway Preservation Society in 1951 - and the Woodland Trust, which bought Coed Nant Gwernol in 1997, have carefully nurtured the woodlands to provide a relaxing landscape for visitors and local people to enjoy.
		The Talyllyn was the first railway in the world to be run by volunteers, being saved from closure in 1951 by the Talyllyn Railway Preservation Society, the first volunteer run train ran on 14th of May 1951.
		The Talyllyn Railway is 7.25 miles long and runs inland from Tywyn on the shores of Cardigan Bay to Nant Gwernol in a natural wooded ravine.
	www.forestry.gov.uk /newsrele.nsf/AllByUNID/287A3932F0FA4D8980256C4D003E35C1?Open&PrintFriendly=y (773 words)

	Talyllyn: History
		During those years the railway also became an integral part of the lives of the valley and mountain people nearby, for its tiny but well-built passenger cars offered a regular service connecting the inland mining community of Abergynolwyn with the stores and emporia of Tywyn.
		Theirs was a daunting task: there was at the time no precedent for a preserved railway, or a preserved industrial or transportation facility of any kind for that matter.
		Today the Talyllyn Railway still runs under its original parliamentary charter, with the Talyllyn Railway Preservation Society and the Jones estate sharing control of the operating corporation through a complicated but wholly amicable legal arrangement.
	www.steamsafari.com /wales/taly/talyA.htm (556 words)

	Corris Railway Book Launch - 4th August 2001.
		The Corris Railway’s Grand Re-Opening on Saturday June 7th 2003 will be celebrated by the return of the railway’s original steam locomotive — courtesy of the neighbouring Talyllyn Railway.
		To mark the formal re-opening of the railway, and the 125th birthday of the railway’s original steam locomotive, a complete Corris Heritage Train is being loaned to the railway from the Talyllyn, where the equipment was preserved after the Corris closed in 1948.
		The Talyllyn Railway rebuilt No.17 in the late 1950s after it had served for twenty-eight years as a greenhouse and garden shed.
	www.corris.co.uk /press/press008.htm (534 words)

	The CR&DJR Railway
		Welcome to the website of the Cemmaes Road and Dolfor Junction Railway (CRandDJR) a 16mm scale, live steam model railway that ran in the heart of San Francisco, California.
		Usually these are garden railways, but as this site shows you can also run them indoors.
		The CRandDJR is based on prototype lines in mid Wales, such as the Corris Railway and Talyllyn Railway.
	railway.gwernol.com (204 words)

	Talyllyn One: A Gray Day at Tywyn
		Talyllyn Railway #7 in the Welsh mountains at Nant Gwernol
		the acquaintance of the Talyllyn Railway on a gray April Friday.
		Now, however, we were in mid-Wales, driving on winding roads, past gray hills, under lowering skies-- to the stone-built market town of Machynlleth, over the Afon Dyfi on an arch bridge that dated back to Cromwell's time, then down the bank of the Dyfi estuary, from the mountains to the sea.
	www.steamsafari.com /wales/taly/taly1.htm (529 words)

	GENUKI: Talyllyn
		The transcription of the section for Talyllyn from The National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
		Talyllyn Railway Preservation Society, records 1960-1975 "The Talyllyn Railway, a narrow gauge railway in the Taly-y-llyn valley, ran from Bryneglwys Slate Quarry, near Abergynolwyn, Merionethshire, to the coast at Tywyn, Merionethshire, linking up with the national railway network............"
		Talyllyn Railway Collection 1865-1994 "Slate was first quarried at Bryneglwys Slate Quarry, near Abergynolwyn, Merionethshire, in the 1840s by John Pughe of Aberdyfi, Cardiganshire.
	www.genuki.org.uk /big/wal/MER/Talyllyn/index.html (408 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Wales \| Facelift for 'Thomas' station
		Talyllyn Railway in south Gwynedd has received a substantial Heritage Lottery grant to redevelop the station at Tywyn and improve visitor facilities.
		The picturesque narrow gauge railway runs between the seaside town of Tywyn and the village of Abergynolwyn in the heart of Snowdonia National Park.
		David Leech, Traffic Manager for the Talyllyn Railway Company said: "This is the biggest tourist attraction in the area.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/wales/2847945.stm (431 words)

	Rheilffordd Ffestiniog Railway
		Begun in 1832, the Ffestiniog Railway started life as a narrow gauge gravity railroad to bring slate down from the mines to the docks at Porthmadoc Harbor.
		Doubling the trackage was uneconomical given the terrain, so instead, a new, more powerful type of locomotive was developed by Robert Fairlie, which consisted of a boiler with fireboxes and driving position in the middle, giving the new "Fairlie's Patent" locomotives the look of two steam locomotives back to back.
		Nearly all of the original locomotives built for the Ffestiniog Railway are still extant; most of them are still in operation.
	world.nycsubway.org /eu/uk/preserved/ffestiniog.html (383 words)

	VideoActive Canal, Railway and Leisure Videos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Talyllyn Railway is one of the Greatest Little Trains in Wales.
		Built to carry slate from Bryn Eglwys Quarry it was the first narrow gauge railway to gain an Act of Parliament to carry passengers.
		This video was shot with the full co-operation of the Talyllyn Railway Preservation Society in July 1990, when the line celebrated 40 years of preservation.
	www.videoactive.co.uk /leisure/trains/atalrail.htm (233 words)

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