HERITAGE IN PERSPECTIVE: AS reported in The RM (Headline News, November), the Talyllyn Railway (TR) has secured a £110,000 National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF) development grant award for its £3.5 million Talyllyn Railway: Preserving Our Past Building Our Future project. This aerial view of Tywyn Wharf station includes an artist’s impression of how the new heritage carriage building (curved structure, centre right) the TR already planned to build will fit into the Wharf station site. This building and the old gunpowder store (obscured by trees to the right of the road bridge) will form a new heritage facility and interpretation centre. The NLHF application will include remodelling the station building/museum (centre left), with the provision of a main entrance at street level and adaptation of Trefri (a half-timbered house with conservatory, centre right) into offices and volunteer accommodation to supplement the existing facilities in Llechfan (bungalow, centre in the yard to the right of the marquee). The largest element of the project focuses on Tywyn Pendre, further up the line and out of view top right.
TALYLLYN RAILWAY
Welsh Highland Railway services disrupted following crash at remote location.
FFESTINIOG & Welsh Highland Railway (Ff&WHR) services between Caernarfon and Porthmadog were disrupted due to a collision between a ‘Snowdonia Star’ train and a vehicle on October 28 at about 11.30am. Details were sparse as The RM went to press but the incident seems to have occurred on the level crossing at Cwm Gloch Isaf, a remote location on a minor road serving farms in the Beddgelert area. The crossing is ungated but understood to have multiple warning signs and good visibility for trains heading towards Beddgelert.
A police report issued shortly after 11.30am stated that officers and emergency services were responding but no serious injuries were being reported. Although the responders included an air ambulance, it is understood that only one person sustained injury and they were taken to hospital in Bangor by road. It is believed, but not officially confirmed, that this person was the road vehicle driver.