Sadly our tender for items from Dean Hill was unsuccessful. Thanks to those who offered to help with the purchase of items (you know who you are). I went there...
Some good photos just been posted by a recent visitor - none of the railway (other than the bridge in Corris) but some good ones of the local scenery,...
I just tried the online shop from the website and it asked for user name and password. What's this and how can one enter these if one's never set them up...?...
The shop is currently being overhauled before being re-opened; the password access is solely for those undertaking the overhaul so they can check out the items...
For those who havn't seen it before there is an interesting single blade point in use at the top of Snaefell, like those used on parts of the Corris slate...
... They used to have an amazing Fell rail point for the entry into Laxey depot: five or six segments moving in proportion from one lever. Now, alas, long...
Any pictures we can see? and, why did they have it? Sam K. ... 1.1. Re: Single blade points. From: ijohnston_ian 1.1. Re: Single blade points. Posted by:...
How many properties have been built over the trackbed through Corris? As a very long term aim could Aberllefenni ever be reached after purchase and demolition...
Last time I was up there it didn't look as if many properties had been built on the trackbed, apart from at Aberllefenni. the section out of corris could be...
In Corris village there are extensions to houses for kitchens and bathrooms, plus gardens, parking spaces and I think a garage. At Garneddwen the trackbed is...
I thought a few years ago there was talk of the health centre relocating to the institute , when that was renovated (which it has been). That at least would...
I am not quite sure why the potential movement of a PUBLIC building, (for everyone's benefit) should be so hush hush, and why members are not made aware of any...
I think that's a bit unfair! As long as I have been interested in the Corris, the surgery has been a delicate issue - not from the Railway's perspective but...
Nigel - if the surgery was to close and the perception in the village was that that was the fault of the railway, then there would be a great deal of hostility...
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:23:27 +0100 ... I can see where Richard is coming from - its all too easy for a half baked idea on a mailing list to become something it...
I seem to remember some members discussing the possibility of one day relaying the old Llwyngwern quarry (now CAT) branch line (some of the earthworks are...
It would be very unfair if the doctors made a decision to move and the railway got blamed! Nigel Nigel Bird (Railway Bookdealer) www.nigelbirdbooks.co.uk OVER...
... In my opinion, the right time to think about a Northern extension is when the Corris reaches back to Machynlleth. And preferably when the Talyllyn has...
... "And preferably when the Talyllyn has reached the lake!" There is always the 'other' northern extension - the one proposed in the 1800's or early 1900's to...
The Talyllyn link was proposed around 1908 in a letter from the new Corris manager, J.J.O'Sullivan, to the managing director, Sir Clifton Robinson, as a way of...
At least two 16mm garden railways I'm aware of have created fictional Dysynni Valley Railways, supposedly running on the north bank of the river from Tonfanau...
Never heard of any proposals to put a railway up the western end of the Dysynni Valley - although there was a stone (?) quarry at Craig yr Aderyn (Bird Rock) I...
Seem to remember reading/hearing somewhere that at one time the Corris had a a second brake coach or van which may have ended up as a grounded body somewhere...
The Board of Trade returns only ever showed one brake van. However, as photos show a different appearance over the years it is assumed that the one van was...
... It is rather strange that the Corris coaches were generally better & more recent than the Talyllyn coaches, & yet the one brake van was a very simple,...
The earliest photos, in the days of the four-wheelers, show the brake van with a higher roof and a guard's lookout (ducket ?) on the platform side. It may be...
