The Bala Lake Railway is a narrow-gauge railway along the southern shore of Bala Lake in Gwynedd, North Wales. The line, which is 4+1⁄2 miles (7.2 km) long, is built on a section of the former standard-gauge Ruabon–Barmouth GWR route that closed in 1965. Another section of the former permanent way is used by the Llangollen Railway. The Bala Lake Railway, which runs on 600 mm -gauge preserved rolling stock, is a member of the Great Little Trains of Wales.
Alice at Llanuwchllyn, 18 July 2004
Maid Marian waiting with a train at Bala station in the rain.
Meirionnydd Severn Lamb Bo-Bo diesel-hydrostatic loco
Bala Lake is a large freshwater glacial lake in Gwynedd, Wales. The River Dee, which has its source on the slopes of Dduallt in the mountains of Snowdonia, feeds the 3.7 miles (6.0 km) long by 0.5 miles (0.8 km) wide lake. It was the largest natural body of water in Wales even before its level was raised by Thomas Telford to provide water for the Ellesmere Canal.
View from Bala
The gwyniad, only native to this lake.
A group of children by a sailing dinghy c. 1885
The lake in an 1893 advertisement for the White Lion Royal Hotel in Bala