If you saw my latest video on how I built Rheneas Viaduct, you'll have seen I had a bit of fun posing a cabless Skarloey like that very early photo of No.1 Talyllyn during construction of the line.
Thanks to the fencepost for hiding the trailing wheels.
No.1 'BRIGITTE' idles at Portethwaite before the off with the Saturday's "Lindsey Belle."
The named train is made up of 4 carriages, the remaining 2 balcony coaches wait in the loop for No.3 'Bia'.
Memoirs from a former fireman on the old Leakbeck & Portethwaite railway.
With a few spelling mistakes from the poor man, it's a story that concerns sand, designs and dirt
"Talyllyn, Dolgoch, Rheneas and I, were built together in England."
"Who," asked Nancy, "are Talyllyn and Dolgoch ?"
"Talyllyn is my twin; Dolgoch is Rheneas."