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    The Talyllyn Railway (Welsh: Rheilffordd Talyllyn) is a narrow-gauge railway in Wales running for 7+1⁄4 miles (12 km) from Tywyn on the Mid-Wales coast...
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    service. It was delivered to the Talyllyn Railway on 24 September 1864 and continues to run on the railway. The Talyllyn Railway ordered two locomotives for...
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  • rolling stock used on the Talyllyn Railway (Welsh: Rheilffordd Talyllyn), a 2 ft 3 in (686 mm) narrow gauge preserved railway line running for 7.25 miles...
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    used the books to promote steam railways in the United Kingdom. The Skarloey Railway was based on the Talyllyn Railway in Wales, where Awdry volunteered...
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    the nearby Talyllyn Railway. The railway has the unusual gauge of 2 ft 3 in (686 mm) which was shared by only three other public railways in the United...
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  • ribbon lake east of Abergynolwyn Talyllyn Railway, a preserved narrow gauge railway running from Tywyn to Abergynolwn Talyllyn (locomotive), one of the original...
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    Sir Haydn (locomotive) (category Talyllyn Railway locomotives)
    It operated on the Corris Railway in Wales, until closure in 1948, and since 1951 has operated on the nearby Talyllyn Railway. It has carried the operating...
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  • the Talyllyn Railway to help out while Talyllyn is being mended. While he is away, brambles and hot weather cause problems for the Skarloey Railway engines...
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    Edward Thomas (locomotive) (category Talyllyn Railway locomotives)
    delivered new to the Corris Railway where it ran until 1948. After that railway closed, the locomotive was brought to the Talyllyn Railway in 1951, then restored...
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    Wilbert Awdry (category Talyllyn Railway)
    Talyllyn Railway in Wales, then in its second year of preservation. The railway inspired Awdry to create the Skarloey Railway, based on the Talyllyn,...
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    the fictional narrow gauge Skarloey Railway in The Railway Series by the Rev. W. Awdry based on the Talyllyn Railway, the locomotive Peter Sam, based on...
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    stations and halts on the Talyllyn Railway (Welsh: Rheilffordd Talyllyn), a 2 ft 3 in (686 mm) narrow gauge preserved railway line running for 7.25 miles...
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    Tom Rolt (locomotive) (category Talyllyn Railway locomotives)
    Tom Rolt is a narrow gauge steam locomotive constructed by the Talyllyn Railway, using parts from an Andrew Barclay locomotive built in 1949 for Bord na...
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    of the Talyllyn Railway in Tywyn, Gwynedd, Wales. The museum has a collection of more than 1,000 items from over eighty narrow-gauge railways in Wales...
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    Dolgoch (locomotive) (category Talyllyn Railway locomotives)
    delivered to the Talyllyn Railway in 1866[page needed] and continues to run on this railway to this day. Dolgoch holds an important place in railway preservation...
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  • engines are all based on their Talyllyn Railway counterparts. The Culdee Fell Railway (CFR) is Sodor's only rack railway. It climbs to the top of Sodor's...
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    Douglas (locomotive) (category Talyllyn Railway locomotives)
    in 1949 by Abelson & Co. (Engineers) Ltd. who then sold it to the Talyllyn Railway in 1953. After being handed over to the RAF on 21 February 1918 the...
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    non-industry-standard technology. The first heritage railway to be rescued and run entirely by volunteers was the Talyllyn Railway in Wales. This narrow-gauge line, taken...
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  • British Railways decided to close it. The film was written by T. E. B. Clarke and was inspired by the restoration of the narrow gauge Talyllyn Railway in Wales...
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    are the major local industries. The village pub, the Railway Inn, is named after the Talyllyn Railway whose narrow gauge branch once reached into the heart...
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    Tywyn Wharf railway station is the western terminus and principal station of the Talyllyn Railway in Tywyn, Gwynedd in mid-Wales. Originally called King's...
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  • L. T. C. Rolt (category Talyllyn Railway)
    of the Talyllyn Railway Preservation Society, and he now threw himself into that, becoming chairman of the company which operated the railway as a tourist...
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    Henry Haydn Jones (category Talyllyn Railway)
    Bryn Eglwys slate quarry, the Abergynolwyn estate and village and Talyllyn Railway came up for sale. Aware of the distress which would be caused by permanent...
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    Pendre railway station (also known as Tywyn Pendre railway station, or formerly as Towyn Pendre railway station) is a station on the Talyllyn Railway in Tywyn...
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    Diana (locomotive) (category Railway locomotives introduced in 1917)
    purchased by railway enthusiast Graham Mullis in 1964. After many years at a variety of location, Diana was purchased by a Talyllyn Railway volunteer in...
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    Bryn Eglwys quarry (category Talyllyn Railway)
    was served by the narrow gauge Talyllyn Railway, which took the slate down to Tywyn for transfer to the main line railway. In 1844 John Pugh or Pughe obtained...
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    with the earliest known example of written Welsh, and the home of the Talyllyn Railway. The name derives from the Welsh tywyn ('beach, seashore, sand-dune')...
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    Ffestiniog Railway, the Corris Railway and the Talyllyn Railway were common carriers, while others like the Penrhyn Quarry Railway and the Padarn Railway were...
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    OO9 (category Narrow gauge railway modelling)
    scale - 2 ft 3 in (686 mm) - was quite rare - today only the Talyllyn and Corris railways in the UK use this gauge. However at 4 mm/foot scale, the differences...
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    the Talyllyn Railway runs besides the falls. The Dolgoch slate quarry was dug into the west wall of the gorge of the falls. "Things to Do". Talyllyn Railway...
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