time for a Glyn Valley revival?

(30.5.1985)

I often show the bottom picture to friends and ask them to guess where it is. Switzterland, France, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary have all come up. It's actually the Ceiriog Valley in east Wales and it once contained possibly the best of the Welsh narrow gauge lines, the Glyn Valley Tramway. This was a mainly roadside 2'4" (and a bit) gauge line which connected the quarries at Glyn Ceiriog to the main line at Chirk. There's a small preservation group already in existence, but it's always seemed to lack ambition to my eyes - but they do have a blog! What they need to do is proclaim that they intend to restore the line for tourism and 'real' trains, bringing back the currently extinct (in the UK) steam tram in the process, giving their line a unique selling point. This would be a fascinating journey through some of the prettiest countryside in the UK. So I shall keep checking their website and when I see a spot of real ambition popping up I'll be the first in the queue to join up!