This was one of those views that seemed a good idea at the bottom of the mountain! When I got to the top, the view wasn't as I had imagined. This is Bullied Pacific
Taw Valley hauling one of the early NWCE's between Abergele and Llandulas. I was driver for the civil engineers during construction of the Abergele by-pass 1966-68. Today it is the A55 to Holyhead. The train has past the location of the Irish Mail disaster of 1868...
A more conventional shot of 34027
Taw Valley heading the NWCE, and taken from the bridge in the picture above behind the train. BR used this shot to publicize the train and kindly sent me tickets. Contemporary drawings of the 1868 train disaster were done from this bridge...
Shot from the other side of that bridge, this scene resembles a static publicity picture. In fact the 71000
Duke of Gloucester was going very fast on the downgrade approach to Abergele on 24th July 1990...