Rheidol workshops to overhaul Welshpool’s The Earl
Jun 04, 2019
2 minutes
By Gareth Evans
GARETH EVANS
THE Welshpool & Llanfair Railway is sending Beyer Peacock 0-6-0T No. 822 The Earl for a major overhaul at the Vale of Rheidol Railway’s Aberystwyth workshops, taking the engine out of a long queue for work at Llanfair Caereinion.
and its sister locomotive have been stalwarts hauled the first public train of the preservation era on April 6, 1963 and continued to work until 1978, when major repairs became necessary.
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