This is great thank you! Have recently walked the entire PQR line, it wasn't easy I can tell you!!!! Fantastic to see how well you've recreated the journey given that some parts of the route are very nearly impassable. Love it!
Glad you liked it, there's only about a third of the route left I think, once it reached where the A55 is it follows the standard gauge route through Tregarth and onto Bethesda.
Great work! It's nice to see more narrow gauge routes being made for TS. Will be a nice one to do using Linda and Blanche. There's a sound pack coming for them soon from Steam Sounds Supreme.
I never realised how much railway infrastructure there was associated with the slate quarries. Fascinating video thank you for posting it. Does anything of it remain today.
@@whiskymacable A group had started relaying the PQR and ran trains at Felin Fawr. I'm afraid that all ended a few years ago due to various issues. Some of the track is still there although all the stock has been moved to various railways around the country.
Astounding as usual Vic! Sitting here mid evening planning to get my old maps out tomorrow and getting ready to trawl Google Earth for the slightest traces of the route!
There's a cycle route from Penrhyn harbour which follows part of the penrhyn and then continues on the LMS route up to Bethesda, which I'll be doing tomorrow.
Vic Jones thank. You, found it on Google Earth, hope the weather wasn't too miserable for your visit. We have been going from Nottingham to N Wales for 50 years, in fact about 40 + visits in the last decade, we have got withdrawal symptoms!!
Great stuff! I cycled the trail recently & was trying to see the different routes
of the PQR & Bethesda branch, this explains a lot ! Thanks.
This is great thank you! Have recently walked the entire PQR line, it wasn't easy I can tell you!!!! Fantastic to see how well you've recreated the journey given that some parts of the route are very nearly impassable. Love it!
Glad you liked it, there's only about a third of the route left I think, once it reached where the A55 is it follows the standard gauge route through Tregarth and onto Bethesda.
Great work! It's nice to see more narrow gauge routes being made for TS. Will be a nice one to do using Linda and Blanche. There's a sound pack coming for them soon from Steam Sounds Supreme.
Very good, enjoyed that.
The one I mentioned on your video Bob was the Padarn Railway which was NG at 4ft and I did that too (Llanberis to the Penscoins rope transporters)
I never realised how much railway infrastructure there was associated with the slate quarries. Fascinating video thank you for posting it. Does anything of it remain today.
The Slate works at Coed y Park is now a Museum and still has part of the track bed-running locos up and down..a very short distance
@@whiskymacable A group had started relaying the PQR and ran trains at Felin Fawr. I'm afraid that all ended a few years ago due to various issues. Some of the track is still there although all the stock has been moved to various railways around the country.
I didn't know, I had seen it on UA-cam I think and assumed it was still going...thanks for letting us know
This is great 👌
Astounding as usual Vic! Sitting here mid evening planning to get my old maps out tomorrow and getting ready to trawl Google Earth for the slightest traces of the route!
There's a cycle route from Penrhyn harbour which follows part of the penrhyn and then continues on the LMS route up to Bethesda, which I'll be doing tomorrow.
Vic Jones thank. You, found it on Google Earth, hope the weather wasn't too miserable for your visit. We have been going from Nottingham to N Wales for 50 years, in fact about 40 + visits in the last decade, we have got withdrawal symptoms!!
What loco is the narrow gauge engine?
Barclay P class...not the correct one but my favourite one to use.