Tanat Valley Light Railway
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The Tanat Valley Light Railway was a 15-mile long standard gauge light railway. It ran westwards from Llanyblodwel in Shropshire, about 5 miles or 8 km southwest of Oswestry. It crossed the Wales–Engl
Heritage locomotive no. 1827 on the TVLR in 2009.
Cambrian Railways train on Tanat Valley Light Railway in 1904
Llanrhaiadr Mochnant station, with a railway enthusiasts' special train in 1958
Portable industrial monorail designed in the 1940s by Road Machines (Drayton) Ltd.
The Potteries, Shrewsbury and North Wales Railway,, was a railway built between Shrewsbury, England, and quarry locations at Nantmawr in England and Criggion in Wales. It was initially opened in 1866;
Tanat Valley Light Railway
…perhaps have given the Great Western Railway a trunk line to Holyhead; as it was, the Chester and Holyhead Railway was adopted instead. In 1866 the Potteries, Shrewsbury and North Wales Railway opened from Shrewsbury to the quarries and Nantmawr. That railway was intended to continue through the Tanat Valley to Porthmadog, but it failed to…
Potteries, Shrewsbury and North Wales train at Shrewsbury station, with a Bury, Curtis and Kennedy 0-4-2 locomotive, 1872-1874