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    Worldwide audience sees Welsh Pony’s first run since 1940

    Jul 10, 2020 3 minutes
    By Robin Jones
    CHRIS PARRY
    CHRIS PARRY
    FF&WHR

    HISTORY was made on several fronts on Saturday, June 27, when Ffestiniog Railway (FR) England 0-4-0STT No. 5 Welsh Pony ran for the first time in 80 years.

    It not only marked the heritage era debut of one of the world’s great classic narrow gauge locomotives, and a type not previously seen by a modern audience, but because of the Covid-19 lockdown, an eager

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