70 years on: Talyllyn celebrates last train before its first
Dec 25, 2020
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By Robin Jones
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IN advance of planned major celebrations to mark the 70th anniversary of its first volunteer-run service – and thereby the start of the operational heritage sector – the Talyllyn Railway has staged a‘rerun’of its final train in private ownership.
It was on a date now lost in the mists of time that a special last pre-Talyllyn Railway Preservation Society (TRPS) train was run in November 1950 – and to mark the occasion nearly seven decades on, it
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