Hello, today I am suggesting the Cambrian Line between Shrewsbury and Pwhelli set in the 1980s. The line stretches for 117 miles (189.68km). The line comes into contact with some of wales most famous narrow gauge railways namely the Talyllyn Railway, Ffestiniog Railway and the Welsh Highland Railway Stations There are 32 stations on the route with 13 of which being request stops Shrewsbury Welshpool (Change for the Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway) Newtown Caersws Carno (reopening proposed) Machynlleth Dovey Junction (change here for trains to Aberystwyth) Penhelig Aberdovey Tywyn (Change for the Talyllyn Railway) Tonfanau Llwyngwril Faibourne (Change for the Fairbourne Railway) Morfa Mawddach Barmouth Llanaber Tal-y-Bont Dyffryn Ardudwy Llanbedr Pensarn Llandanwg Harlech Tygwyn Talsarnau Llandecwyn Penhryn-deudraeth Minffordd (Change for the Ffestiniog Railway) Porthmadog (Change for the Welsh Highland Railway) Criccieth Penychain Abererch Pwellhi Rolling Stock BR Class 24 BR Class 108 DMU Layers BR Class 08 from either NTP BR Class 47/4 from NTP BR Class 101 from NTP LMS Jubilee or 8F from SOS (Railtour) BR Class 40 from NTP (Railtour)
great suggestion if you want more info i made a north wales coastal line and this website helped a ton it even has shrewsbury plus the cambrian mainline if you want more info. links Railways of North Wales 1975-1983: CambrianML:general (2d53.co.uk) Railways of North Wales 1975-1983: cambriancoast:menu (2d53.co.uk) Railways of North Wales 1975-1983: shrewsbury:general (2d53.co.uk) British Railways Timetables (2d53.co.uk)
Would love a variation of this route as I have been visiting this part of the world for all of my 39 years!!!
funny enough, I used that website to see what locomotives were used on this line. I noticed through the website that a class 40 came down with the Cambrian Coast Express so I added it as a railtour layer.
