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    Talyllyn replays arrival of Corris pair 70 years on

    Apr 13, 2021 3 minutes
    By Robin Jones
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    THE Talyllyn Railway has celebrated the 70th anniversary of a key historic event which pre-dated the dawn of the global volunteer-led operational heritage railway movement by two months – by the arrival of locomotives 3 and 4 from neighbouring sister 2ft 3in gauge line the Corris Railway (CR).

    The Talyllyn Railway Preservation Society was formed in 1950 to take over the running of the railway following the death of its owner, Sir Henry Haydn Jones, who four years earlier had pledged to

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