Update for April 2017

One of the original pair of identical engines, No.823 Countess, approaches Cyfronydd station on an early spring day with a train from Welshpool.

A minute later, the train leaves Cyfronydd, heading for the Brynelin viaduct. Trains do not normally stop here unless there are passengers to pick up or set down. However, trains cross here when the two-train service is in operation, and for the Gala weekend in early September. The out-of-scale speed limit sign is more appropriate to125 mph running and may be replaced.

Earlier in the journey, the train has just left Sylfaen station and is heading for the Coppice Lane crossing.

Not an easy location to photograph, this train for Welshpool is just easing out of the Mill Curves, before passing Schoolmistress cottage and heading for Heniarth.

No.12 Joan, standing in the platform at Llanfair. All trains in service arrive and depart from this platform. This locomotive was built for service on the sugar plantations of Antigua, but has adapted well to service in the very different climate of mid-Wales.

View of Llanfair station area from the signal box. The main workshop building can be seen, together with an Austrian carriage stabled outside. To the left is the Mechanical Engineering office, due to be replaced in a few years time, when the new workshop is due to be constructed.

The new workshop will be located behind Keyse Cottage, the purpose-built accommodation for volunteers. The yellow frame is part of the engine casing for the Diema diesel locomotive, which was being overhauled.

Next collection tomorrow.