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(22/07/2010)

Vintage Weekend - 8th to 10th October    


A celebration of the FR's special heritage and a chance to see and experience the line's collection of vintage engines and stock; from more than a century and a half of history, it is all still running on its original railway. Always an unmissable event!
 
Please contact us with any enquiries, by phone on 01766 516000 or by email at enquiries@festrail.co.uk

More details to come. In the meantime, check out a selection of images from past events giving you a flavour of the FR's absolutely unique vintage experience... See you in October!

Download event poster here (.pdf format - 1.1mb.)

 

A classic FR scene. ME hauls the mixed train across the Cob.       Palmerston hauls the slate train up Gwyndy Bank

Loco crews in authentic costume - always a key part of any FR Heritage Weekend - line up with their charges at Harbour Station

Prince and four-wheel stock rounds Boston Lodge curve    DLG approaches Penrhyn Crossing - a timeless scene    Original preservation machines - Prince and the Simplex at Harbour Station

A restored Curly Roof Van struggles to recreate the scene that faced the first preservationists in the 1950s.       Old FRCo diesels depart Minffordd

Double Fairlie locomotive David Lloyd George approaches Minffordd with a freight train       Vintage cars complement the train to make a timeless scene at Penrhyn

Originality - Livingston Thompson making a return to the FR's old engine shed    Palmerston with slate train, laden with brakesmen for the gravity trains to come, on the Cob.    Single Fairlie locomotive Taliesin with the 'Colonel Stephens' set at TyG

Original FR civil engineering - DLG on large dry stone embankment Cei Mawr    'Double' heading - powerful double Fairlie locomotive and original old FRCo Simplex in the woods below Tan y Bwlch    Classic FR outline - the mixed trains departs across the Cob

The 'green and ivory' set on Gwyndy Bank       The 'green and ivory' departs Minffordd

Merddin Emrys, just unveiled in full Victorian livery, rounds the spiral with vintage stock       A very similar shot to the famous images of the FR revival in 1954. Allan Garraway on the Simplex at Pen Cob.

DLG with bogie stock on the Cob at low tide       England engine Welsh Pony joins the usual Harbour Station loco line up

Once again - a little changed scene. The Simplex at Minffordd Weighbridge.       Framed by the ancient oak tree, trains in Minffordd Station.

Palmerston preparing for duty at Boston Lodge Glan y Mor headshunt    Resplendent in 'new' livery, Merddin Emrys basks in the dusk sunshine next to Minffordd platform shelter.    Spooner's Boat on its maiden voyage

Always a key part of the FR's vintage experience - authentic period costumes sported by a variety of characters. Something to look forward to in October 2010...

 


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