[4737carlin]

Along the route of the old 25½ miles Bala to Blaenau Ffestiniog railway line you can find this wonderful nine-arch viaduct towards the village of Trawsfynydd, part of the Teigl curve. Built in 1882 and opened a year later by the Bala & Ffestiniog Railway (B&FR) along with the GWR. Crossing the Afon Prysor at a height of 105 feet (32 metres) from river bed to rail level.

Easy to access from a lay-by on A4212. The railway was the only way to travel between Bala and Blaenau Ffestiniog before the A road was built in 1964

Later in the 60s part of the trackbed was flooded to make a reservoir, Llyn Celyn (which supply water to Liverpool..... so in away we can blame scousers for its closure!!), this cut the track five miles north of Bala. To avoid a costly deviation and with traffic being lost to the A road, Beeching had the excuse that he needed to close the line at the loss of over 100 jobs.

A few years ago the Meirionydd Railway Society announced plans to reopen the 6¼ miles from Trawsfynydd sidings to Blaenau Ffestiniog, seeking to operate steam over this section, but i guess it never happened

From the A road lay-by on A4212, looks great already. The route of the line can be seen on the right snaking around






Back towards the A road from the viaduct

[Reddood]

The sign told him he couldn't LOL..

looks a nice bridge though.

[The-Village-Idiot]

Nice, cracking sky shot on that next to last pic.

[Gibbo]

I think we were the last to rope it a couple of years back.

http://nwex.co.uk/showthread.php?t=5463

[pacef8]

Oh god its bringing back my mother of a hangover again !!!.

That was a cracking day and if you search tinterweb Carlin there are some very nice snow shots and night time star trails.

Ta

pace