FOLLOWING closure of the private Rhiw Valley Railway (RM, November 2022) offers have been invited for individual items or the entire assets of the railway, other than the track for which an offer has already been accepted.
The steam locomotives comprise 0-4-0 tender Jack built by Jack Woodroffe and TMA Engineering in 2003 (with a ticket for its 1999-built Israel Newton boiler valid until April 2025) and 0-6-2T Powys designed by David Curwen, built by Severn Lamb in 1973 and subsequently rebuilt with new Hackworth valve gear 2016-18 (boiler certificate valid until August 2028).