FFESTINIOG RAILWAY VINTAGE W/E OCT 2000
| A selection of photographs taken at the Vintage Weekend event on the Ffestiniog railway over the 7/8th October 2000 featuring several visiting locomotives. |
A
line up of Hunslet Quarry loco's at Harbour Station, Porthmadog,from
left to right "Lilla" "Gwynedd"
and "Alice" |
| 0-4-0ST "Alice" built in 1902 by the Hunslet Engine Co.for the Dinorwic Quarry seen here at the FR's Minffordd yard.The loco is now based at the Leighton Buzzard Railway in Bedfordshire. |
"Alice"
at Minffordd yard. |
| 0-4-0ST Hunslet "Gwynedd" built in 1883 for the Penryn Slate Quarries,Bethesda. This loco is the oldest Quarry Hunslet in existence and comes to the event from Bressingham Gardens in Norfolk. |
| 0-4-0STT "Palmerston" built in 1863 by George England & Co, one of the first steam loco's to be delivered to the Ffestiniog Railway. now owned by the FR Trust pictured here at Minffordd Yard. |
| 0-4-0 "Lilla" built in 1891 by the Hunslet Engine Co for the Cilgwyn Slate Co.,Nantle, later bought by the Penryn Slate Quarry,Bethesda.Now owned by the FR Trust, seen here at Minffordd Yard. |
| 0-4-0ST "Cloister" built 1891 by the Hunslet Engine Co. for the Dinorwic Slate Quarry,Llanberis.This loco like many others is typical of those to be found working the quarry galleries in past days. Seen here at Harbour Station visiting from the Hampshire Narrow Gauge Railway Society. |
| "Gwynedd" participating in The Great Slate Shunt at FR's Minffordd yard. |