ON May14, 1951, theworld’sfirst passenger train on a railway run entirely by volunteers departed fromTywyn Wharf station on theTalyllyn Railway. What followed was unlikely to have been foreseen by many – if any – as the operational railway heritage sector that we know today was launched.
This significant occasion is marked annually by the TR, and it was a double celebration for the 72nd Founder’s Day asthe locomotive that pioneered preservation, returned to steam – just!
