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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.

Tro Pen Plâs neu Tro Tyler; enwyd ar ôl Capt. Tyler, Aroly-gydd Rheilffyrdd i'r Bwrdd Masnach, fu'n ddigon mentrus i deithio ar y tren pan fyddai'n mynd o gylch y tro hwn yn ôl 40 milltir yr awr. Hediw, mae'n mynd ar flaenau ei thraed megis, yn ôl 10 milltir yr awr.

S. Evans

Tyler's Curve, named after an illustrious and intrepid Board of Trade Inspector of Railways of the 1860s. Captain Tyler needed to be intrepid: in early days trains dashed round this hairpin at 40 m.p.h. Now they tiptoe round at 10 with the extra safeguard of a checkrail.