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Festinog Railway Vol 2 Locomotives and Rolling Stock by JIC Boyd w/DJ
Festinog Railway Vol 2 Locomotives, Rolling Stock and quarry feeders by JIC Boyd
Hard Cover w/ dust jacket Notice the tear in the back of the dust jacket. There is a ripple in the lower half of the spine and dust jacket
305-626 pages
Copyright 1975
A history of the Narrow gauge railway linking the Slate Quarries of Blaenau Ffestiniog with Portmadoc, North Wales; together with outline histories of quarry undertakings connected to the Railway 1800-1974
CONTENTS
14 Motive Power 1863-1953307
15 Carriages and Wagons 1836-1953334
16 Fencing and Permanent Way 1836-1953373
17 Traffic and Operation 1836-1953382
18 Publicity and Tickets425
19 Quarry Customers and Feeder Branches435
20 The New Era 1954-1974491
Appendices
1A Absolute Gradients546
1B Welsh Slate Co.546
1C F.R. Bill 1831: Subscribers 549
1D Slate Wagon Stock June 1862550
1E Extracts from Publications 550
1F N. Wales Hydro-electric Act 552
1G Unintentional Humour555
1H Mineral Traffic557
1I Boston Lodge Vernacular 558
1J Stock in Hand, Boston Lodge, 30 June 1873559
1K Stations and Staff 1920562
1L Personnel566
1M Slate Tonnages and Pass. 570
1N Miscellaneous Statistics571
1O Accident ReturnsS72
2 Spooner & Co.578
3 Bibliography588
4 Locomotive Matters592
5 Time-tables598
6 Vignes Drawings608
7 Annual Returns616
INDEX TO PLATES
Rolling Stock
1R Six varieties of non-passenger stock
2R Open Wagon and converted Horse Dandy 1943
3R 3 Ton Slate Wagon1887
4R Low-side Open Wagon1887
5R Goods stock in Boston Lodge Yard
6R Bogie Open Wagon1887
7R Six-wheeled Wagon and Hearse Van1956
8R Quarrymen's train at Creuau showing stock variety187 I
9R Winter passenger train formation. Harbour. Palmerstonc1923
10R Hudson `Toastrack' coach1923
11R Four-wheeled coaches Nos. 11 and 11887
12R Rebuilt coach No. 1. Boston Lodge1932
13R Rebuilt coach No. 6. The Cob1929
14R Quarrymen's coach; Type 2
15R Variety in Quarrymen's coaches, with Merddin Emrysc1876
16R Bogie van No. 2, as rebuilt. Harbour1936
17R Bogie coach No. 16 Harbour.1874
18R Converted bogie coach No. 20
19R Mixed passenger stock. Harbour1934
20R Engraving of stock; from Engineering1884
21R Renovated carriages back in traffic; Nos. 23,22 and 181958
22R Formation of Up mixed train on Cei Mawr1932
23R Private four-wheeled `coach'. Boston Lodge1923
24R Working on coach No. 11 (ex No. 4). Boston Lodge
25R Large Open Mineral Wagon1887
26R Passenger carriages back in service; train at Pen Cob. Prince1955
27R Restored carriages form a Down train approaching Minffordd. Taliesin 1957
Signalling
1S Variety in signals
2S Train Staff Tickets; W.H.R. and F.R.
3S McKenzie & Holland's signal fittings.
Permanent Way
1T Fish-bellied track surviving at Boston Lodge1956
2T Joint chair and T rails; Tan-y-Bwlch1943
3T Primitive clasp-type fishplate. Dinas branch1947
Gravity Trains
1G Early engraving showing Down train and Traeth Mawr etc.
2G Gravity train passing Dduallt 1924
Spooner & Co.: Quarries
1Q Spooner & Co. Wagon number plate1945
2Q Kathleen. Alexandra Quarryc1920
3Q Kelso 1 and De Winton locomotive in a Mod Tryfan quarry
4Q Loading rock underground. Oakeley Quarry, Blaenau Ffestiniog1948
5Q Moel-y-Gest Quarry locomotive. Harbour1903
6Q Votty & Bowydd Quarry incline, Duffws1942
7Q Mole after unloading at Portmadoc
8Q Surface scene at floor incline entrance, Oakeley Quarry1948
9Q Edith at Llechwedd Quarry
10Q G.W.R. `Host Wagon' carrying narrow gauge slate wagons1923
11Q Wooden slate wagons derailed; Dinas branch1954
12Q Skinner of Maenofferen Quarry, seen at Penrhyn Quarry1935
13Q Coalition, one of the steam-electric conversions, Llechwedd1943
14Q Head of No. 3 Incline, Rhiwbach Tramway1947
Miscellaneous
1M Derailment due to snow (Scribner's Magazine)
2M Derailment due to fog. Blaenau Ffestiniog192o
3M A miscellany of tickets
Locomotives
1L The Princess and train. Duffwsearly 1870s
2L Festiniog & Blaenau Rly train, Tan-y-Manod viaduct
3L The Princess in F. & B.R. station, Duffwsc1876
4L The Princess as Bottom Shunting Enginee1892
5L The Prince as modified. The Cob1887
6L Princess in ultimate form. Duffws1927
7L Prince as restored. Tan-y-Bwlch1958
8L Mountaineerafter 1876
9L Palmerston in ultimate form. Boston Lodgec1928
10L Prince in traffic. Portmadoc1957
11L Welsh Pony, from engraving in Engineering1867
12L Little Giant. Maker's photograph
13L Little Giant as modified. The Cob1887
14L Welsh Pony as modified. Duffwsc1876
15L Little Giant as Top Shunting Engine. Duffwsc1876
16L Little Giant, with boiler of 1888. Portmadocc19oo
17L Little Giant in ultimate form. Duffws
18L Little Wonder, Duffwsc1876
19L Taliesin. Maker's photograph1876
20L Taliesin as modified. Duffws1877
21L Taliesin after rebuilding. Portmadocc,900
22L James Spooner, new engine. Harbour1874
23L James Spooner as modified. Duffwsc1876
24L Little Wonder on Up mixed train. Creaua1871
25L James Spooner with 1889 boiler. Harbourpre 1908
26L Livingston Thompson. The Cob1887
27L Working Drawings. Merddin Emrys
28L Working Drawings. Livingston Thompson
29L Livingston Thompson, new engine. Duffws
30L Livingston Thompson (now Taliesin) as restored. Minffordd1957
31L Prince on passenger duties. Tan-y-Bwlchpre 1904
32L Prince restored and on special working. Tan-y-Bwlch1959
33L Merddin Emrys as returned to traffic. Tan-y-Bwlch1961
The New Era (1954-1974)
1N Open Wagon No. 87 and Side Tipper No. 160. Exchange Yard1974
2N Hudson Bogie Open Wagon No. 68. Exchange Yard1974
3N Taliesin back in service. The Cob1957
4N Taliesin at the Harbour head-shunt (now demolished)
5N Linda as acquired from Penrhyn Quarry Railway1963
6N Linda on Down train below Tan-y-Bwlch1965
7N Peak-season working leaving Gamedd Tunnel. Blanche1974
8N Merddin Emrys with modern coaching stock, below Dduallt tank1974
9N Tractor Moelwyn on ballast train, Penrhyn1974
10N Construction scene on Deviation at former Moelwyn Reservoir1974
11N Up train nearing Dduallt, the New Era train. Mountaineer1974
12N Up passenger approaching Campbell's Platform. Linda1974
13N New Dduallt station, looking down from the Deviation above1974
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION
Undoubtedly the most important and famous narrow gauge railway in the world, and certainly the doyen amongst narrow gauge systems, the Festiniog Railway has been known to the Author for almost half a century. This new history is based on his earlier works, but it is enriched with a wealth of new facts, these being the fruits of recent discoveries among hitherto unsuspected sources and backed by intensive fresh fieldwork.
For the first time the Railway is considered not only as a remarkable piece of engineering in its own right, but is treated alongside its quarry customers, so giving a unique insight into industry and transport inseparably linked for over a century.
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