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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.

Dim ond swn y tren sy'n tarfu ar dawelwch Coed y Bleiddiau. Nid oes ffordd yn arwain yno a rhaid i'r preswylwyr gerdded milltir hyd y llwybr i'r ffordd fawr neu dalu 5c. am i'r tren aros o flaen y tŷ. Bu Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) yma ar un adeg ac addawodd unwaith y deuai'r Luftwaffe i ymweld â'r lein fâch a'i gofio ef ati. Ni ddaethant byth.

S. Evans

Only the whoop and rattle of Festiniog trains disturb the peace of Coed-y-Bleiddiau, whose occupants have the choice of walking a mile to the road or boarding a train at their private halt on pain of payment of a 5p surcharge. William Joyce, the Anglo-Irish Nazi, once lived here and during World War II promised in a broadcast that the Luftwaffe would come and remember "the little railway” for him. It never did.