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Y Cambrian, Y Rhymni, Y Taff, Y Barri—atgofion pell a dogfennau llychlyd yw'r cwmniau rheilffyrdd Cymreig hyn yn awr. Ond mae'r hynaf ohonynt i gyd gyda ni o hyd—Lein Fach Ffestiniog, mam holl reilffyrdd culion y byd. Wedi blynyddoedd lawer o ddirywiad a chyfnod byr o segurdod llwyr, daeth gwaredigaeth yn 1954, a byth er hynny mae pethau'n gwella'n gyson.

The Cambrian, the Rhymney, the Taff Vale, the Barry . . . the Welsh railway companies are now nearly all distant memories and dusty files. But the oldest of them all is still with us—the Festiniog Railway, mother of the world's narrow-gauge lines. After many years of decline and a short period of closure, it was rescued in 1954 and has been on the mend ever since.

Mountaineer, yr "injian” o'r America, yn clirio'i gwddf megis wrth gychwyn ar draws y Cob ar y daith i fyny i Dduallt. Codwyd y Cob yn 1811 i sychu'r Traeth Mawr—tu ôl i'r Cob mae priffordd a phorfa gwartheg. Yn y cefndir gwelir yr Wyddfa (canol ar y chwith), y Lliwedd, a thu ôl i'r mwg, y Cnicht.

J. Hunt

American locomotive Mountaineer clears her throat for the climb to Dduallt on the level stretch along the Cob—the Traeth Mawr embankment immediately out of Portmadoc. The Cob is an ambitious coastal engineering work of 1811—behind that wall are cows and a main road. The backdrop includes Snowdon (middle left), Y Lliwedd and, somewhere behind the smoke, Cnicht.