#Aberglaslyn Pass

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RD5758 LYD & K1 Aberglaslyn by Ron Fisher Via Flickr: 2011/02/21.RD5758. A pair of walkers stop to watch the 10.45 from Caernarfon to Porthmadog as it wends its way through the scenic Aberglaslyn Pass south of Beddgelert. 101 years separate the two locomotives; the pilot engine, LYD, is a replica of a Lynton & Barnstaple Railway Manning Wardle 2-6-2T and it was built in the Ffestiniog Railway’s workshops at Boston Lodge being outshopped in 2010. Although destined to carry Southern Railway green livery in the future, it is currently painted in British Railways mixed traffic lined black livery; this shows what these locomotives would have looked like had the Lynton & Barnstaple line still been in existence when the railways were nationalised in 1948. The train engine is the first ever Beyer-Garratt, 0-4-0 + 0-4-0 K1. This locomotive spent its working like in Tasmania but was preserved by Beyer Peacocks at their Gorton, Manchester works in 1947. It was then purchased by the Ffestiniog Railway in 1966 and has now been restored to working order for use on the Welsh Highland Railway. Monday, 21st February, 2011.

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Aberglaslyn Pass  |  by paul ashton

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Aberglaslyn Pass, Wales🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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1822 Sunday 21 July

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We have found as much as 1/2 hour difference in the clocks in a single stage - these a quarter later than those at Caernarvon - which latter I go by - Very rainy night, and morning - enough to wet one thro’ in 2 or 3 minutes - ‘Tis very doubtful whether we can stir out at all today - the weather is so bad and seems so likely to continue so, and, besides we are so limited for time, I think we must give up Harlech and Barmouth, Dolgelli and Cader Idris, nay! had it been fine, perhaps we might have got to Aberystwyth and the devil’s bridge and Hafod, - and we must return by Bala from here - Came downstairs at 9 1/2, quite ready for being off, if the weather were better -

12 50/60 after much watching the weather it seemed to clear a little near 1 p.m., and we determined to go to Dolgelli (18 miles) by the high road (Caernarvon road) vide Cary page 243 - off from Tan y Bwlch at 1 40/60, and got to Trawsfynidd in 1 32/60 hour at 3 12/60 - (Trowsfinith pronounced) - a miserable village - perhaps a tolerable town for North Wales - 6 miles from Tan y Bwlch - passed the Highgate Inn, a small pot-house, and drove a little farther to the cross foxes # Inn a good deal better in appearance than the other, tho’ still a very common sort of ale-house - the road here for the 1st 1/2 way bad and hilly the latter pretty tolerable - a tremendous hill just out of Maentwrog when we passed the neat looking little church close on our right - In looking down the vale I saw Tan y Bwlch hall (Mr Oakley’s) embossed in wood on the right of the declivity as we went down to Tan y Bwlch last night - and on the same side of the vale about 3 miles from Tan y Bwlch on the margin of the lake, the village of Ffestiniog whence the vale is commonly named by tourists - the clock here is 20 minutes later than from that at Tan y Bwlch and 1/2 hour later than Caernarvon - the clocks at Cernioge and Capel Curig varied about 1/2 hour - a shower just as we stopt here -

Soon lost sight of the vale of Ffestiniog which is certainly very beautiful - well cultivated, well wooded, and fertile - the road after leaving it bounded by high rugged mountains more or less distant so distant as scarcely to form what one would call a vale - the high and bleak intervening ground turbary strewed with large nude masses of stone - passed thro’ a little wood of moss-grown oaks up a hill near here -Trawsfynidd “a large village” vide Nicholson’s Cambrian Guide page 795 “a mean village” vide page 1272 

Dolgella 9 5/60 - Arrived here at 8 5/60 i.e. twelve miles in 3 20/60 hours having left Trawsfynidd at 4 3/4 - the first 4 miles of the road very bad made with stones broken into such large pieces, or paved as it were with them so roughly we were obliged to walk all the way, and still were shockingly jolted - the country too bleak, and dreary, and uninteresting, the mountains receeding too far - yet a few little cottages or poorish little farm houses - Almost sickened of the road, when, at the end of the first 4 miles, the mountains began to approach each other, the Mawdach rushed along its rocky bed on our right, and the scenery became wooded and very fine - by and by crossed the river, and then had it all along on our left - several little streams rushed into the river - one forming a beautiful cascade close on our right, and then rushed thro’ a bridge under the road - 2 or 3 gentlemans seats - the wood, the water, the stupendous mountain ranges on each side forming a landscape surely not to be surpassed - the town of Dolgella finely situated and opened upon us beautifully. Indeed the whole of the last eight miles of our road baffles description - we have seen nothing to compare with it - the coming down upon Beddgelert is very fine, as also thro’ Mr Oakley’s woods down to Tan y Bwlch, but I give the preference to the last 8 miles of today, and think no one should visit North Wales without travelling this road - the appearance to and view from Penman Mawr (which perhaps struck me most at the time); the tremendous grandeur of the 1st 3 miles from Beddgelert to Tan y Bwlch including pont aberglaslyn and the peep down upon Traeth mawr sand - and the savage sublimity of the scenery about Ogwen pool in Nant Frangon, have, together with the last 8 miles of today, impressed me as the best worth seeing things we have met with -

Dogella 1840 - image credit: Wikimedia Commons

Dinner at 9 - My aunt’s bowels not quite right (the cider yesterday night disagreed with her) and she had tea immediately on our arrival - I had part of a loin of mutton roasted - very good and tender, a piece of salmon boiled and an apple pie or tart with a bottle of cider, of which I did not quite drink a tumbler glass - wrote the last 14 lines from after dinner - had done them at 10 50/60 having settled with George - very sleepy and went upstairs at 11 my aunt and I for the first time have a double bedded room but I have managed to get a dressing room up in the garret - great deal of discharge - 

# (Wednesday 21 August 1822) the arms of Williams - Sir Watkin Williams Wynne of Wynnstay -

Reference: SH:7/ML/E/6/0029 - SH:7/ML/E/6/0030

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Aberglaslyn Pass by Andrew Kearton

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RT @mihollandphoto: Behind the scenes at Aberglaslyn pass with a shot I've wanted to get for a rather long time. Much prefer the Autumn ver… @vanguardphoto

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RD5624 Aberglaslyn by Ron Fisher Via Flickr: 2011/02/19.RD5624. The Aberglaslyn Pass to the south of Beddgelert is one of the highlights of a journey on the Welsh Highland Railway as the railway and the Afon (River) Glaslyn run side by side through the gorge until the trains are swallowed up by the Long Tunnel. Trains are now able to operate on the whole length of the line from Caernarfon to Porthmadog and two inaugural trains were run from opposite ends on the 19th February, 2011. This is the 10.45 from Caernarfon double headed by two Beyer-Garratts, 0-4-0 + 0-4-0 K1 from Tasmania and 2-6-2 + 2-6-2 138 from South Africa.

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RD5626 K1 & 138 Aberglaslyn by Ron Fisher Via Flickr: 2011/02/19.RD5626. With the rushing waters of the Afon (River) Glaslyn in the foreground, two Beyer-Garratts, 0-4-0 + 0-4-0 K1 from Tasmania and 2-6-2 + 2-6-2 138 from South Africa, in the Aberglaslyn Pass on the Welsh Highland Railway. They are heading the 10.45 from Caernarfon which was one of the two inaugural trains that were run on Saturday, 19th February, 2011, when the whole line from Caernarfon though to Porthmadog was opened to traffic.

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RD5757 LYD & K1 Aberglaslyn by Ron Fisher Via Flickr: 2011/02/21.RD5757. 101 years separate these two locomotives! The pilot engine, LYD, is a replica of a Lynton & Barnstaple Railway Manning Wardle 2-6-2T and it was built in the Ffestiniog Railway’s workshops at Boston Lodge being outshopped in 2010. Although destined to carry Southern Railway green livery in the future, it is currently painted in British Railways mixed traffic lined black livery; this shows what these locomotives would have looked like had the Lynton & Barnstaple line still been in existence when the railways were nationalised in 1948. The train engine is the first ever Beyer-Garratt, 0-4-0 + 0-4-0 K1. This locomotive spent its working like in Tasmania but was preserved by Beyer Peacocks at their Gorton, Manchester works in 1947. It was then purchased by the Ffestiniog Railway in 1966 and has now been restored to working order for use on the Welsh Highland Railway. The pair are working the 10.45 from Caernarfon to Porthmadog and this shot shows them in the scenic Aberglaslyn Pass south of Beddgelert on Monday, 21st February, 2011.

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RD5630 K1 & 138 Aberglaslyn by Ron Fisher Via Flickr: 2011/02/19.RD5630. Beyer-Garratts 0-4-0 + 0-4-0 K1 from Tasmania and 2-6-2 + 2-6-2 138 from South Africa in the Aberglaslyn Pass on the Welsh Highland Railway. They are heading the 10.45 from Caernarfon which was one of the two inaugural trains that were run on Saturday, 19th February, 2011, when the whole line from Caernarfon though to Porthmadog was opened to traffic.

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RD5625 K1 & 138 Aberglaslyn by Ron Fisher Via Flickr: 2011/02/19.RD5625. Beyer-Garratts 0-4-0 + 0-4-0 K1 from Tasmania and 2-6-2 + 2-6-2 138 from South Africa in the Aberglaslyn Pass on the Welsh Highland Railway. They are heading the 10.45 from Caernarfon which was one of the two inaugural trains that were run on Saturday, 19th February, 2011, when the whole line from Caernarfon though to Porthmadog was opened to traffic.

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