Heritage Projects Update - Replica Waggons, Winding Houses & More!

[@CymruJedi]

Beautiful progress. Great to see Luke in front of the camera as well

[@kevin-2.1]

I like that you show off the old pictures of the winding house.

[@DanQuine]

The scoring on the slate slabs in the winding house plinths are the result of a channelling machine at the quarry. They show the extraction method of the slate at Bryn Eglwys.

[@derekp2674]

Thanks very much Ian, Luke and team.

[@DanQuine]

Great to see the return of the Corris van, and it looks excellent. Ty Dwr really is weathering in well and looking the part. I love the winding house reconstruction and will be following this with great interest. As always, wonderful progress by the heritage team

[@theaussiebritt8948]

I had the pleasure of visiting your railway a few weeks ago on my holiday from Australia. I was so impressed with the youth representation on the line - so many young people working here! Well done!

[@harrisonallen651]

Those replica wagons are looking marvellous

[@ExpressRhubarb]

so many brilliant projects! didn't some of the rails from the Aber incline get reclaimed to rebuild the line in the 1950's?

[@TheHoveHeretic]

A bridge from Aber village line too, I believe.

[@TheGreatWesternExpress]

I saw Douglas today at the SVR in highley museum

[@oscarkageson-loe]

Brilliant project ideas! In case you missed it but I wrote down some other ideas as well including extending the line up to Corris and the beach. The way you can extend your line up to Corris and join up with them is doing what the Welsh Highland railway did by going around the mountains instead of going through them so you and the passengers can see the scenery. I know that would cost a lot but I don’t think it will hurt to explain it to you. As for the beach, you build a lift bridge above the standard line at either Tywyn Wharf or go down the old slate sidings and build it there. The reason why for a lift bridge is because since there aren’t many mainline trains running you can keep down or up for as long as you need it to be and then you can build a an extension down to the beach. Look forward to seeing your new projects

[@derekp2674]

@@oscarkageson-loe Those are interesting ideas but my personal favourite is a branch to Bryn Crug, to provide easier access to the pub there and for the benefit of all those who live there ;-)

[@johnhenstock9668]

Very good!

[@Odinnyb13]

Wonderful stuff you all are doing! I do hope you build the new winding house in such a way so it could in the future be put into use if someone would ever want to repair and reconstruct the incline down to the village. Understand that it would be quite expensive to get done now, but its good if the winding house is up for the job now if it is ever put back into action, so future work would not involve too much re-rebuilding of the new winding house!

[@x-tareverything]

Travel through a replica winding house will be really fun

[@alsmith5604]

Some great progress and a lot of really good work. Well done to all.

[@lukemendel8197]

I hope they attempt to restore the incline all the way to the village, for demonstration purposes

[@edbrown1121]

Including the tramways into the village!

[@derekp2674]

@@edbrown1121 Yes the Railway Inn really should be reconnected to the railway again :)

[@eliotreader8220]

in the pre TRPS days I imagine that the TR got their coal delivered the same way

[@MagiTailWelkin]

Speaking of the coal situation what were the results of the alternatives, like the rapeseed oil briquettes?

[@TheHoveHeretic]

Between Alltwyt and Cantrybedd inclines was the unusual Galltymoelfre Tramway section. The land isn't railway owned (if ever it was), horse worked, bridge rail. You have to wonder .....

[@eliotreader8220]

there's plenty of old sleepers too

[@Nictrain123]

6:20 Wow, 10’s flying! What’s the fastest speed record on the Talyllyn?

[@fergus41]

What will happen with the remaining incline track down to the village, will the bush covering it be cleared eventually to show where it is and what remains?

[@6allmotivepowers363]

No, it can't be... IT IS - the winding house is returning from the dead - thank you Talyllyn Team!!

[@RG-Models86]

13:15 A drink and a shower in one 😂

[@robrice7246]

3:46 Now why does it have the name Camrys on its side planks (I assume it was a former industrial company)? And 696 represented its build or works number?

[@mattlander9119]

I think it's a way of saying Cambrian which would have been the mainline company back then. The number would be the wagons running number, its probably fictitious unless there is evidence there was a wagon numbered the same back then

[@derekp2674]

@@mattlander9119 I assume Cam Rys is short for Cambrian Railways

[@TalyllynRailway1865]

As Ian said in the video the wagon has been restored to represent a wagon belonging to the pre-grouping company of the Cambrian Railway - which they shortened to Cam Rys on their rolling stock. This Railway operated the standard gauge line next to the TR until 1923, when it was absorbed into the GWR. I believe the number 696 is what was on the reference picture we were working from, so a genuine Cambrian Railways wagon number.

[@robrice7246]

@TalyllynRailway1865 So the original was the 696th piece of rolling stock made? Explaining where that wagon's number is lifted from?

[@mattlander9119]

@@robrice7246 not necessarily. Wagons weren't always numbered in sequence depending on the railway company especially if there was many different types owned by a company. If a company didn't build their own wagons it was common for private owners to either purchase or rent their wagons from the companies who built them so it could have been the 696th wagon owned by Cam Rys or just a number from their numbering system. They just said it was the number of the wagon in the reference picture used.

[@michaelwhiles5282]

Very interesting but PLEASE get a wind shield for your microphone

[@TalyllynRailway1865]

They had them but sadly broke off and we've not had a chance to get some new ones yet! Trust me that I'm well aware it's not ideal haha

[@ryleeculla5570]

Will you ever reopen the old quarry for tourist or is it not possible

[@derekp2674]

The old quarry site is not part of the railway. Today it forms part of a commercial forestry site run by Natural Resources Wales. For tourists, the site is accessible via a network of footpaths and forestry roads. These include a way-marked route to the quarries and back again from Nant Gwernol Station on the TR.

[@TalyllynRailway1865]

The Quarry land isn't owned by us unfortunately, however the quarry is accessible to tourists as there are a series of walks that you can take around the Quarry, starting from Nant Gwernol station. Re-opening it for slate production would be impossible!

[@ryleeculla5570]

@@TalyllynRailway1865so basically it’s owned by another preservation group

[@TalyllynRailway1865]

@@ryleeculla5570 No, it's owned by Natural Resources Wales for forestry use - not a preservation group. Sadly most of the quarry buildings are deteriorating and falling down, or have already

[@derekp2674]

@@ryleeculla5570 Another useful point is that several other quarries have already been turned into tourist attractions, so tourists can already easily visit those instead. The one near Harlech provides a great demonstration of the way in which Bryn Eglwys would have been worked.

[@Shark_Builds_Bro]

12:54 The man second from the left looks a bit like Wilbert Awdry

[@bryantan863]

Luke Ryan, when are you going to post Dolgoch's history video on the Talyllyn Railway's official KZbin channel because it has been so long since the history video of the original number 5 and 7 locomotives was posted on the channel. There are some people who want to know why Dolgoch had a different name in the earlier years and how he managed to keep the railway going when it was having a hard time.

[@QuarrySteam]

Have some patience

[@BoxtankEngine]

@@QuarrySteamthere has been enough patience

[@loganthewolfbear2671]

No updates on the Lawnmower

[@TalyllynRailway1865]

There's a short and sweet one at 11:55 😊

[@loganthewolfbear2671]

@@TalyllynRailway1865 oh?

[@AndrésMahou]

Waggons..ffs

[@DanQuine]

@AndrésMahou-t5d what do you mean? "Waggons" is the correct spelling on the Talyllyn.

[@TalyllynRailway1865]

'Waggons' is the historic spelling used in many documents across TR history - our modern wagons we spell as such, but historic ones we tend to try and use our historic spelling ☺️

[@alanclarke4646]

​@@DanQuinein fact both spellings are correct English ( I checked a dictionary )

[@alanclarke4646]

Both spellings are correct in English. FFS