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from my own experience.... pacers..awful voyagers...awful...noisy...smelly...windows out of line class 158...nice looking but feel cramped class 175...brilliant...lovley smooth running feel spacious.......cant wait to go back on em again in Wales in august class 170...liked em smooth running comfort...

lovely little railway have visited a couple of times..see if i can dig some old photos i have of it...


cant belive tesco's is now opposite the station....shows you just how long ago i last went....

A selection of photo's are on the brilliant north wales coast railway website of this recent pathfinders special tour some cracking photos heres the link....... just click on notice board and them " to previous notice board section.".. check out the recent one for the new wrexham to maryle...

lovely pics fella

coming along nicely...some lovely metcalffe buildings...top work fella

no i did the walk opposite the lake but over the hills....and then did the railway in the afternoon....was about 8 mile round trip but the ground was very boggy in parts and some of it has been fenced off and some seem to have been fenced off by the farmer lol....so was probabaly aboput 15 miles aft...

loving your layout Ron......need any photos fella of anything along the Welsh lines i might have something to help you??...

Kev

Thats a lovely layout Tom ....top work fella

indeed it is Chris...although i dont suggest doing the circular walk round Bala i did

I don't know, its a weird place. Its all grey and gloomy, many of the buildings always look dingy and depressing. Then theres the locals... The mining history is interesting though. Or maybe its just me :) known for its rain.....think they are all old miners cottages......streets are a pain to driv...

enjoy Tim...time it right and you can get some decent trains through there....although not like the good old days from my youth holidays ..sidings were buszzing with locos...now its the cinema i think

my last selection of pics from my recent holiday in Wales is of the Ffestiniog railway....was suppossed to be a rainy day but the weather held out and even got some sunshine down Porthmadog 8) http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v318/kev-ster/Ffestiniog-8.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v318/kev...

Great pics (again!). I'd agree with you, the Tal y Llyns my favourite too, the staff are great there.. Runs from Tywyn to Abergynolwyn........ Did you carry on all the way to Nant Gwernol, as there are some lovely walks from there? sorry Tom..my mistake :oops: :oops: we did go to the end at Nant Gw...

TomWebber wrote:Nice pictures Kev, the one of Blaenau almost makes it look like a reasonable place (seriously though, that place scares me )

whys that Tom??.....

Thanks Neil.....just me Ffestiniog ones left now.....phew i hear you all say