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RD5661 Garratts on The Cob

RD5661. Through trains between Caernarfon and Porthmadog on the Welsh Highland Railway commenced operations on Saturday, 19th February, 2011.

 

Two inaugural trains were run that day, one from each end of the line, and these are the locomotives from the Caernarfon train getting ready to return back whence they came. They are ex. South African Railways 2-6-2 + 2-6-2 NGG16 Beyer-Garratt 138 and the first ever Beyer-Garratt, 0-4-0 + 0-4-0 K1 from Tasmania.

 

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Taken on February 19, 2011