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‘Tender first’ for Bala Lake!

THE Bala Lake Railway operated its first passenger trains to be hauled by a tender locomotive in the route’s narrow gauge era when 1863-built George England 0-4-0STT Palmerston visited for a week on June 18.

A tender locomotive has not worked a passenger turn along the shore of Wales’ largest

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