Flask Siding
Standing behind the buffer stop at the end of the Flask Siding, which was a short siding off the original formation, as we look north towards Blaenau Ffestiniog on the disused freight only line, at Trawsfynydd in Gwynnedd, North Wales.
The Blaenau Ffestiniog-Bala line closed as a through route on the 4th January 1960 and lifted, apart from a 5 mile stretch at the northern end Blaenau Ffestiniog-Trawsfynydd, to serve the then new Trawsfynydd Nuclear Power Station (since closed) and take away spent nuclear rods.
The last flask train to leave here was on the 8th August 1995, behind class 31 locomotives 31255 and 31199.
The last train here before the line closed on the 31st October 1998 was, Hertfordshire Railtours 'The Trawsfynydd Lament' top and tailed by 56108 (buffer end) and 47785, running as the 1T70 15.04 Trawsfynydd-London Euston.
30th October 2018
Flask Siding
Standing behind the buffer stop at the end of the Flask Siding, which was a short siding off the original formation, as we look north towards Blaenau Ffestiniog on the disused freight only line, at Trawsfynydd in Gwynnedd, North Wales.
The Blaenau Ffestiniog-Bala line closed as a through route on the 4th January 1960 and lifted, apart from a 5 mile stretch at the northern end Blaenau Ffestiniog-Trawsfynydd, to serve the then new Trawsfynydd Nuclear Power Station (since closed) and take away spent nuclear rods.
The last flask train to leave here was on the 8th August 1995, behind class 31 locomotives 31255 and 31199.
The last train here before the line closed on the 31st October 1998 was, Hertfordshire Railtours 'The Trawsfynydd Lament' top and tailed by 56108 (buffer end) and 47785, running as the 1T70 15.04 Trawsfynydd-London Euston.
30th October 2018