I was there when we brought the first length of track back to the Llangollen Railway. Where are those great friends now?

The very first time I watched this series was in the early 90s when it was shown in the evening. Happy childhood memories 😊

It's interesting to hear what the original names for these railways were. Only the Welsh Highland kept its name, where the Dyfed Railway became the Teifi Valley Railway, the Gwili Valley Railway shortened its name to just the Gwili Railway and the Flint and Deeside Railway became the Llangollen Railway.

10:29 £16 pounds each . . .

The hurdy gurdy

Every time I visit Pen Yr Orsedd ( and similar quarries ) I see ever more decay, vandalism,metal thieves and stolen artifacts. The only way ahead is to restore the important buildings and turn it into a mixed price housing estate. How much would you pay to look out and see views like this every day. Just wrap up warm and bring your own vehicle for this isolated place. Maybe as it is being restored the " good people of Pen Y Groes will help by repeatedly "" borrowing"" the tools and supplies " ?

da iawn

I love this man. Laugh out loud funny

The one and only favourite…I also like some of the others though

Full of their own self importance back then

WOW,its such an adventure. So marvelous! 😍😍😍

could you post all 6 episodes

4:28

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4:28 with subs

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I very much recognise Snowdon; mountain and where the railway starts. I went there on a school trip once. We only went half way up though, due to how lousy the wind was then. I forget which locomotive it was that pushed our coach up though.

Thanks for posting this. I saw it back in 1974 and been looking for a copy since. Seems that it is locked in time as the Colonel passed on and now there is road access, still the film captures the magic of North Wales so well.

Thanks . Great video. My favourite place.

When the beeb made some decent programmes.

I'm glad to see that somebody else remembers this great, old series. Somewhere, there's a pilot or first episode about the three champions becoming champions

still in decline

23:24 Steam - ? is Clive Gibbard. Great discovery and well produced

Shame it never got the funding.

That brought a little tear to my eye. Wonderful.

Interesting.

Interesting.

I’ve been on this!

I should call this episode-Thunderball Reunited, because Bernard Lee [M] plays Squires and Philip Locke [Vargas] plays Yeats and he became a goodie for William Gaunt [Richard Barrett] for helping him out from being frozen. I love this episode, and I remember this broadcast on a Wednesday afternoon in July 1986 at 1:30 pm.

wonderful footage of the TR in the 1990s

While the whole presentation was delightful, I think I was especially drawn to the stories told by Sir Williams-Ellis about his life and how he developed his village attraction. I have been to the Ffestiniog Railway with family members, but didn't get to see Portmerion village. Must keep it in mind if I ever go to North Wales again. Regards, Samuel Farris.

I am trying to understand whether even in the railways of continental Europe (France, Italy, etc.) staffs and tokens were used to regulate access to single track routes, a system apparently still in use in the United Kingdom, in the peninsula Indian, Argentina and so on. Thank you in advance for your precious collaboration

Hey. Can I please use some of your footage in my films? I will credit you for it.

Hello please can upload more Ffestiniog Railway 1988 KZbin videos

Is this actually the original ch4 airing from 1985? Amazing if so! Cheers

WOW! That had me griped from beginning to the end. What a wonderful voice. It boosted my prifde in being a Welshman. Diolch yn fawr iawn.

Brilliant find and so close to home 👍

My mum was born and raised in Oswestry, and my grandfather used to talk about the Cambrian. This is a heartwarming video for me

Ahh, one of the rare occasions I’ve seen the push pull service working

A load of crap! The dozy eyed idiot could hear an approaching Car before the other character - but later on he had to put his Ear to the door to listen in on a conversation.

I have been on the Railway a few times before.

A Really Useful Railway.

A Really Useful Railway.

Thank you for making mine and my DAD's day!

I have been on it before.

Really Useful.

chasing in a Victor FC101, 3 speed gearbox, dead slow, slow and sedate...

My Grandma had a similar thing happen to her

It's NOT Blaenaw!! It's Blaenau. As in Aye,aye.Spoit it at the beginning.

She was killed the day after the first edition was broadcast, resulting in a hiatus for the rest of the series. Watching her here, it's horrible to think what lay ahead.