THE route is‘clear’for the restoration of C2 0-8-0 No. 221 on the Ffestiniog &Welsh Highland Railways – after the partially-restored locomotive successfully cleared gauging tests on the tightest parts of theWelsh narrow gauge line’s route.
Owned by a group of Ff&WHR s footplate crew, No. 221 was imported from China and arrived in the UK in January 2007. The locomotive, Dahuichang No. 4, was initially believed to have been built at the Harbin Forest Machinery Factory in January 1988 as
