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I visited the Ffestiniog Railway last Friday and Saturday for the annual Victorian Weekend. I have now added the photographs to my Ffestiniog Railway 2016 Gallery at: http://www.jhluxton.com/Railways-and-Tramways/Welsh-Narrow-Gauge/Ffestiniog-Railway-2016/ Here are a few samples...

I recall being taken to Ormskirk in the 1960s and all three platform lines (up and down) and bay were electrified. When through running ended the down line was retained as a by-pass to the back to back stops but was later removed. By the time the upline was severed the bay platform line had...

A few photographs taken on a visit to the Llangollen Railway on September 24. Full Llangollen 2016 Gallery can be found here: http://www.jhluxton.com/Railways-and-Tramways/Heritage-Railways-of-The-Briti/Llangollen-Railway-2016/ Corwen...

I think the logical thing would be to reopen the Blaenau Ffestiniog to Ffestiniog as an extension to the Ffestiniog Railway or even the Network Rail line - but beyond that is it worth it?

Yes it certainly appears to be. I was in my teens when I took these photos and had not learnt to drive yet. My father used to take me to Seaton and Beer when on holidays for a visit to the Seaton Tramway (which was laid on most of the branch) and then on to Peco at Beer. There have been...

By comparison these photographs I took on April 04, 1978: Unfortunately I didn't photograph the forecourt side of the building! Captions can be found at: http://www.jhluxton.com/The-35mm-Film-Archive/Railways/The-Withered-Arm/Seaton-Junction-Station/ Photos of other...

Quite simple - SmugMug gives you total control, it is very similar to a conventional web site. Flickr is too constrained - SmugMug is can be completely configured to your own design. John

I have had a Smugmug site - www.jhluxton.com since 2010, though I have only really started to seriously develop it in the past 18 months. For many years - almost since the world wide web started in the 1990s I ran a conventional web site which was edited using various versions of Microsoft...

To me on a personal basis the most evocative station names were Penzance and Exeter St David's. In my late teens early 20s used to travel to West Country from Liverpool departure from Lime St was around 09:20 if I recall correctly with a relief SO 09:15? train to Paignton which went via Hereford...

View of Tintern Station - April 2016 L2016_1376 - Tintern Railway Station, Monmouthshire, Wales by John Luxton, on Flickr --- old post above --- --- new post below --- Another station without tracks is Bovey Tracey (Moretonhampstead Branch) now a museum. Photographed 2013. The platform side of...

The original Ffestiniog Rly Station at Blaenau Ffestiniog survives as public toilets. At Carlingford on the Greenore branch the station survives as public toilets and tourist office, or did when I last passed through a few years back and Google suggests it's still there.

Tintern Station Monmouthshire hasn't seen a passenger train since 1959 but is still very busy with people as a tea rooms and visitor centre on Wye Valley Line route.

I paid a visit to the Dean Forest Railway on May 30 and took quite a few photos which I have added my DFR Gallery. Some samples: The full collection of photos taken on May 30 and on previous visits can be found here...

i holiday in this area and occasionally take a trip. Gunnislake Bere Alston appears quite well used. i have seen whole families just do Bere Alston to Calstock one stop as the crossing of the viaduct provides what is essentially a ferry service. It is a few miles round by road. John

I definitely remember some Bury line EMUs in green during late 70s in sidings near Bury wasn't long before I left school in 1978 thus I know it was fairly late 70s.

Top of my list is Okehampton to Bere Alston Then Barnstaple to Bideford Wye Valley Line to Monmouth Caernarfon to Bangor Bootle to Aintree

I have recently posted over 300 photographs taken during the ffestiniog Railway May Bank Holiday Gala 2016 to my Ffestiniog Railway 2016 Gallery: http://www.jhluxton.com/Railways-and-Tramways/Welsh-Narrow-Gauge/Ffestiniog-Railway-2016/ Also a few the same weekend of the Welsh Highland Railway...

Torpantau - Brecon Mountain Rly quite isolated and exposed.

Today for £7 at Carrog Station I bought one tea, one coffee (served in proper mugs) one slice of carrot cake and a corned beef and branston pickle bap. Seemed pretty good value