Ffestiniog Railway Midweek in March

22nd March 2006

Somebody told me I wasn't impulsive enough the otherday... well how about this. 22nd March, and two rare occurrences correlated: firstly the sun was shining, and secondly I had a day off.

With nothing better to do I headed off to the Ffestiniog to take some pictures in the sunshine. Oh and I also bought some beer... well a lot of beer attuacally!

Blanche was traction of the day, although she wasn't steaming well at all, but we made it up to Blaenau - nearly on time - the conecting 153 kindly waited for us.

I had expected a quiet day as it was midweek, but to my suprise nothing was further from the truth - two coach parities plus a very impressive number of general puttings and even a few gricers! The result was a packed 7 coach train, not bad at all.

Coming off there lunch break, Rickett and it's crew	Paul Davies poses for the cameras	Arrival at TYB
Round Dduallt Tank	Approaching Cambells	This is as clear as the view ever gets during the year - was very impressive.
Blasting out of Dduallt	Ddault	Over Rhoslyn Bridge
The Mountains in the distance	The old bridge on the old formation	Aproaches to the old Moelwyn tunnel
	The Moelwyns	Heading up past the Llyn Ystradau
Ystradau,	The northern end of the old Moelwyn Tunnel	The Power station
The dam	The view of TYG	Arrival at Blaenau
Look! The sun does shine here sometimes!	Just incase you didn't know...	South end of the station
The conway valley 153 departs		Blanche tops up for the trip back
I began to try some arty shots	Alan James filling up Blanche	Worksplate
Crank	Nameplate	Heading back through Bodychain
The old coppermine(?)	Enterance to the old Moelwyn tunnel
Round Dduallt spiral	The Xmas decorations are still there!	Approaching Dduallt
Traws Power station, hopefully this won't be quite as visable in a few years time.		Ddaullt Tank Curve
	Arrival back at Minffordd
Snowdon with Snow	The classic cob view.	Oh and the real reason for going, to pick up 12 bottles of Darkside ready for Easter, Trouble is getting them 200 miles home!