PhilH
Western Thunderer
I first started taking railway photographs in 1958 or 1959 using my fathers old Kodak camera with folding bellows front and a sugar cube viewfinder perched on top. Results were to say the least mixed and I hadn't got into the habit of recording exactly where and when I used it. They were taken on 120 size negatives and in the absence of exact dates I've labelled them all as "c1959". I got my own 35mm camera in 1960 but it wasn't until 1962 that I started recording exact dates, so some of those photos are dated rather vaguely "c1960" or "c1961".
Despite living alongside the North Wales main line I had little interest in it, much preferring branch and secondary lines. One particular favourite was the Bala to Blaenau Ffestiniog line, and several trips were made over it. Other lines covered were mainly in North Wales, Mid Wales and Welsh Border Areas, and many of the trips were made with a school friend during the summer holidays.
Some of these photos have been posted previously on another forum several years ago, but have been re-edited to hopefully give some slight improvement, and many others are published here for the first time.
So to start a few photos on the Cambrian Coast Line taken on several visits, working south from Afonwen.
Despite living alongside the North Wales main line I had little interest in it, much preferring branch and secondary lines. One particular favourite was the Bala to Blaenau Ffestiniog line, and several trips were made over it. Other lines covered were mainly in North Wales, Mid Wales and Welsh Border Areas, and many of the trips were made with a school friend during the summer holidays.
Some of these photos have been posted previously on another forum several years ago, but have been re-edited to hopefully give some slight improvement, and many others are published here for the first time.
So to start a few photos on the Cambrian Coast Line taken on several visits, working south from Afonwen.
80087 taking water at Afonwen c1959
2214 with a short goods train arriving at Portmadoc on a very wet day in 1960
6333 arriving at Portmadoc on the same day in 1960
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