Gravity Works Trains
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One of the delights of early volunteer working parties was the possibility of a "Gravity Train" ride after the day's work was over, on the return to Minffordd Yard. Below is an example from the early 1960s.
A works gravity train from Penrhyn to Minffordd
*Date: 12th February 1966 *Photo: Geoff Plumb
*Date: 12th February 1966 *Photo: Geoff Plumb
The head the PW Dept at the time , Ron Lester, is in the first of the ex-RAF wagons as they depart over newly relaid track. Graham "The Pipe" Westley is in the second wagon and other "London Area Group" members in subsequent wagons. There was, of course, an "engineering possession."
Another view of the same train on the same day
*Date: 12th February 1966 *Photo: Geoff Plumb
*Date: 12th February 1966 *Photo: Geoff Plumb
London Area Group member Ron Fisher is standing on the wall at the right watching proceedings.
