Gwili Railway

'The Gwili Steam Railway /Rheilffordd Ager Y Gwili' operates from Abergwili Junction (nearCarmarthen) in South Wales along a short section of the former Carmarthen to Aberystwyth railway closed for passenger traffic in 1965 and lifted in 1973.

The Gwily railway was launched in 1975 and by 1978 had saved 0.5 miles of track and was running an initial steam hauled service. Since then the railway has expanded to Danycoed and the company continues to hope to expand to Llanpumpsain. The locomotive stock of the Gwily railway is unusual in that in mostly represents local industrial and wartime operations rather than mainline services.

Locomotives

• "Steam Locomotives"
  • 71516 War Department 0-6-0 saddle tank built in 1944
  • 7058 Stephenson & Hawthorne saddle tank built in 1942
  • 2201 Andrew Barclay saddle tank built in 1945
  • 5272 Hunslet austerity locomitive built in 1945
  • 1914 Avonside colliery engine built in 1914 and a long term restoration project

• "Diesel Locomotives"
  • 02 101 B ritish Rail Class 02 shunting engine
  • D2178 British Rail shunting engine
  • 421702 Trecatty - Ruston and Hornsby industrial engine
  • 27658 North British shunting engine built for British Steel Landore
  • 27878 North British shunting engine built for British Steel East Moor steelworks and later at the tinplate works at Velindre near Swansea
  • 207103 Ruston and Hornsby industrial engine used at Bedwas coke ovens by British Benzol
  • 393302 Ruston and Hornsby industrial engine built in 1955 and used at the Aluminium Wire and Cable Company in Swansea

External Links

• Gwili Railway home page