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NGW0428 - Ffestiniog Railway - May 01, 1993 - Hunslet Hundred Gala by John Luxton Via Flickr:

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L2025_2171 UPNOR CASTLE running round por John Luxton Por Flickr: UPNOR CASTLE runs around at Porthmadog Harbour station before another service to Tanybwlch. Click here for more photographs of the Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railways www.jhluxton.com/Railways-and-Tramways/Welsh-Narrow-Gauge...

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L2024_3327 TAL-Y-LLYN at Rhydyronen by John Luxton Via Flickr: TAL-Y-LLYN wearing her new blue livery rolls into Rhydyronen Station with the 10:39 from Tywyn to Nant Gwernol. Rhydyronen is one of the busier stations on the line with passengers travelling to and from the nearby caravan site. Click here for more photographs of the Talyllyn Railway: www.jhluxton.com/Railways-and-Tramways/Welsh-Narrow-Gauge...

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SCY_0578 - Telephone Box and Lighthouse - Middle Town - St Agnes by John Luxton Via Flickr: A view towards St Agnes Lighthouse which dominates the heart of this Scillonian island. Today the lighthouse functions as a day mark having been replaced in 1911 by a new lighthouse at Peninnis on St Mary's. The lighthouse contrasts nicely with the GPO K6 phone box. Camera: Contax RTSII + Carl Zeiss 50mm f1.7 Planar lens For more 35mm archive photographs of St Agnes - Isles of Scilly please click here: www.jhluxton.com/The-35mm-Film-Archive/Isles-of-Scilly/St...

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COR_0002 - East Looe - Cornwall - 1978 by John Luxton Via Flickr: Lower Chapel Street, East Looe. How time flies! When I took this photo April 04, 1978 it was just before I returned to school for the final time to take my A Levels! Camera: Praktica Nova 1 + Carl Zeiss 50mm f1.7 lens Agfa CT18 film More 35mm Archive views of Cornwall can be found here: www.jhluxton.com/The-35mm-Film-Archive/Cornwall-Kernow

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Flickr: WMM007 - Cwmystwyth Mine - The Mill Cwmystwyth Mine is considered to be one of the most important mining sites in Wales. The site has a long history from prehistoric times through to final closure around 1950. Mining on any scale had ceased in the later 1920s and the majority of men were paid off around 1930 and only caretakers kept on to maintain machinery and buildings and to deter thefts. Use of the mill probably ceased at this time but had probably only been intermittent through much of the 1920s. Production during 1930s was spasmodic and small - it seems to have been confined to hand-picking ore off the dumps. Activity ended around the start of World War II. It is believed that the mill machinery was scrapped immediately after the war. The mine being officially abandoned in 1950 though no real activity had taken place since the start of the war. It seems that the mill machinery was scrapped immediately after the war. Staff House (the Barracks) was part converted to a house and the remainder simply decayed. The last resident of Staff House moved out around 1950 after which decay speeded up. I visited the site in May 1984 when the barracks and the main mill building were still standing. Unfortunately they were demolished a few years later. My greatest regret was that I didn't take more photographs on that day! The site is now being conserved by the Cymystwyth Mines Trust. For more details please go to: www.cambrianmines.co.uk/Cwmystwyth.htm I am grateful to "Garregfawr" on the Adit Now forum for providing with me with some additional information on this site. For more 35mm Archive photographs of Cwmystwyth Mine please click here: www.jhluxton.com/The-35mm-Film-Archive/Mines-of-Wales/Cwm... Camera: Contax 139 Carl Zeiss 28mm f2.8 Distagon Lens by www.jhluxton.com - John H. Luxton Photography https://www.flickr.com/groups/flickrest/

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NGW0453 - Clogwyn Station - Snowdon Mountain Railway - 1994 by John Luxton Via Flickr: The Snowdon Mountain Railway is probably my least visited of the north Wales narrow gauge lines with only visits in 1966, 78, 94 and 2014 and as a consequence very photographs. However, with the line reopening to its full length in summer 2023 for the first time since 2019 it is on my list for a visit this year. In this view Hunslet 12 pauses at Clogwyn Station on April 30, 1994. On this early season operating day trains were only operating to Clogwyn as there was snow on the upper section of line leading to the summer station. In 1996 locomotive 12 was renamed GEORGE after the former Speaker of The House of Commons George Thomas, Viscount Tonypandy. This view looking up hill clearly shows the complex pointwork associated with the Abt Rack system. Camera: Contax RTSII + Carl Zeiss f1.7 50mm Planar lens For more Snowdon Mountain Railway Archive images please click here: www.jhluxton.com/The-35mm-Film-Archive/Railways/Snowdon-M...

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L2025_2251 Coupling Up at Nant Gwernol por John Luxton Por Flickr: The driver and firelady of EDWARD THOMAS keep a good lookout as the locomotive approaches the carriages standing in the platform at Nant Gwernol Station. Click here for more photographs of the Talyllyn Railway: www.jhluxton.com/Railways-and-Tramways/Welsh-Narrow-Gauge...

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L2025_2112 JAMES SPOONER - Boston Lodge por John Luxton Por Flickr: JAMES SPOONER the latest locomotive to be completed by Boston Lodge works in 2023 sands on the ash pit. Click here for more photographs of the Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railways www.jhluxton.com/Railways-and-Tramways/Welsh-Narrow-Gauge...

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L2025_2148 PRINCESS por John Luxton Por Flickr: PRINCESS Ffestiniog Railway Number 1 displayed in original condition inside the old locomotive shed. It is not anticipated that this locomotive will be returned to service having not run since the railway closed in 1946. This is to conserve its original appearance. Sister locos PRINCE, PALMERSTON and WELSH PONY are in service. Click here for more photographs of the Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railways www.jhluxton.com/Railways-and-Tramways/Welsh-Narrow-Gauge...

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L2025_2048 Aberglaslyn Pass por John Luxton Por Flickr: CASTELL CAERNARFON and LYD head the Ffestiniog Railway Society AGM Special through the Aberglaslyn pass on the return journey to Porthmadog on Saturday May 03, 2025. Click here for more photographs of the Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railways www.jhluxton.com/Railways-and-Tramways/Welsh-Narrow-Gauge...

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L2024_5437 MERDDIN EMRYS - Tanybwlch por John Luxton Por Flickr: MERDDIN EMRYS with the 10:10 Porthmadog to Blaenau Ffestiniog on October 05, 2024. Click here for more photographs of the Ffestiniog Rauilway in 2024: www.jhluxton.com/Railways-and-Tramways/Welsh-Narrow-Gauge...

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L2024_5507 JAMES SPOONER at Tanygrisiau por John Luxton Por Flickr: JAMES SPOONER which had taken the 08:00 slate train from Porthmadog to Tanygrisiau Power Station (from where the slate train would return by gravity) then proceded to Tanygrisiau Station where it joined the stock of the 09:15 from Blaenau Ffestiniog to return to Blaenau at 09:40. The train was tailed by LYD. JAMES SPOONER is the newest locomotive in the Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railways Fleet having been completed by Boston Lodge works in 2023 as a replacement for the Earl of Merioneth which was withdrawn in 2016. Click here for more photographs of the Ffestiniog Rauilway in 2024: www.jhluxton.com/Railways-and-Tramways/Welsh-Narrow-Gauge...

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L2016_5279_02 - L&Y Railway Class 27 - Carrog por John Luxton Por Flickr: Former Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Class 27 12322 at Carrog whilst shunting a demonstration freight train. The "foreign" loco was visiting GWR territory for the 2016 autumn gala railway. I have recently reprocessed all of my Llangollen Railway photographs taken between 2009 and 2015 as well as adding many more to my Llangollen Railway Galleries. You can access them here at: www.jhluxton.com/Railways-and-Tramways/Heritage-Railways-...

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L2023_4006 LYD and MERDDIN EMRYS por John Luxton Por Flickr: LYD at Blaenau Ffestiniog during the 2023 Bygones Weekend before returning to Porthmadog with the 10:20 train double headed with MERDDIN EMRYS which can be seen taking water in the background. Please click here for more photographs of the Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railways: www.jhluxton.com/Railways-and-Tramways/Welsh-Narrow-Gauge...

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L2023_1686-2 Number 8 at Pontarfynach por John Luxton Por Flickr: Vale of Rheidol Railway number 8 emerges from the rock cutting at the entrance to Devil's Bridge / Pontarfynach station before attaching to the train to form the 16:00 to Aberystwyth. The locomotive was built by the GWR at Swindon Works shortly after the Vale of Rheidol, part of the Cambrian Railway was merged into the GWR at the grouping. For more photographs of the Vale of Rheidol Railway please click here: www.jhluxton.com/Railways-and-Tramways/Welsh-Narrow-Gauge...