New rail museum! Vale of Rheidol Railway, Aberystwyth
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- Опубліковано 31 тра 2024
- The Vale of Rheidol Railway had a brand new museum, so we went along to check it out. Expect opportunities to drive some of the locomotives over the summer!
Head to rheidolrailway.co.uk for more information.
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Fascinating! Thanks Ian and Carly.
Just seeing a decent museum thats clearly being looked after & loved is great, especially a steam railway. Fantastic, can't wait to see it in person! As soon as I saw the railcar, it got me remembering the one in New Zealand 👌
remember when they were BR blue . Nice to see you appreciate steam, nothing like a loco to cheer the soul.
Really interesting video, thanks Ian.
What a pleasure to see those wonderful engines and the investment that is being made at the railway. Nice to have some good news.
Thank you Ian & Carly great video
I always enjoy when you do these museum tours and this one looks particularly interesting given the history of some of these locomotives. It's great to see them not only being preserved but also the fact that they get to run every now and then. I wonder whether today's locomotives will get looked after in a similar way when they are retired from service.
Great video. Just to clarify…as you say in the video, Dukedog No.9017 is standard gauge which is 4ft 8 1/2 inches, as per the UK mainline network. ‘Fire Queen’ on the other hand is a narrow gauge locomotive built to 4ft gauge. Railways with a track gauge between 15 inches to 4ft 8 1/2 inches is known as a narrow gauge railway. This engine ran on the old Padarn Railway which ran along the shores of Llanberis Lake in North Wales from the Dinorwic Slate Quarries to the nearby Port. Nowadays, part of the former 4ft gauge trackbed is used by the 2ft gauge Llanberis Lake Railway which uses Hunslet built ‘Quarry Hunslets’ to haul its trains, almost identical to the VoR’s ‘Margaret’!
I spent a lot of my childhood on holidays near Devils Bridge in the 60's & have been on the Rheidol railway many times to Aber, they had Blue carriages in the 60's/70's
I remember going on the Vale of Rheidol back when I was of school age, the line was still under BR ownership and the locos were painted BR blue with the double arrows.
Thanks Ian, you're spoiling me with more steam! The South Eastern Railway ran (runs) through Northfleet ( less than 20 miles from London Bridge Station, still on the Thames) where Fire Queen was built down here in darkest Kent. The Dukedog was the first loco I ever rode on as a four year old in 1969 on the Bluebell. By riding on I really mean on the footplate as my Dad blagged a footplate pass, he being a former Southern Railway Driver. As a result I have a very deep seated affection for a loco that was obsolete before she was built... That's steam for you...
We did the Festiniog, the Tallylyn and the VoR in 1970 at my behest on a family holiday, with their generous forbearance. Seen the Dukedog many times at the Bluebell. Thanks you for the update, looks proper spiffy.
Thank you for this one, I miss your non car related content so much :). The Hotels, the small cities, the interesting tidbits of Welsh places , I"m weird that way :) .
Beautiful building
This is a wonderful video, thank you so much! This is a great museum.
My girlfriend and I travelled down to Wales from Scotland last year and went on the Vale of Rheidol Railway thanks to Hubnut loved it scotland has competition with the amazing scenery in Wales we miss Wales
Going here this summer and it looks really fun
I remember travelling on the Vale of Rheidol train from Devils Bridge to Aberystwyth and back in the early 80's, loved it. Good to see it is still going strong. Thank you for the memories. I must try and go back there sometime. 🙂
When do we get Hubnut Drives a Steam Train? Trust me, it's like nothing else, and hugely enjoyable.
You and Carly need to visit Statfold Barn Railway at some point as that is an amazing narrow gauge railway collection with the addition of classic trucks and some steam traction engines and old construction equipment. They also run trains around the fairly substantial length line they have.