Gwynedd
- For the Ffestiniog Railway carriage of the same name, see Carriage 150.
Newly painted, and leading Cloister into Minffordd Station from the yard, with Lilla and Palmerston at the rear | |
Type | Quarry Hunslet |
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Home Railway | Bressingham Steam & Gardens |
Original Railway | Penrhyn Quarries |
History | |
Built by | Hunslet Engine Co. |
Built | 1883 |
Technical | |
Wheel Arrangement | 0-4-0ST |
Locomotives |
Gwynedd is a Hunslet 0-4-0ST (Builder's number 316 of 1883) used for shunting at Port Penrhyn and later in the Penrhyn Quarries. Now based at Bressingham, it visited the FR in October 2000. It was repainted in its original 1883 livery by the FR on this its first return to North Wales in 35 years.
Gwynedd returned to the FR in 2018 for Hunslet 125.
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References[edit]
- Thomas, Cliff S (2001). Quarry Hunslets of North Wales: The Great (Little) Survivors. Usk: Oakwood Press. ISBN 0-853615-75-6. OCLC 48194491.