Walk to Llyn Bowydd.....11.

Tramway bridge.

  

Looking across to a future destination
   

The dam wall.

 

Walk along the old Ffestiniog railway....19.

Crossing the old viaduct into Black Hill station. 

 

Looking into the station.

  

I was considering walking the loop today, however, the maintenance train arrived so that was out.

 

Walk along the old Ffestiniog railway....12.

Side of the viaduct.

  

Looking back to the tunnel.

  

Ruined cottage at the side of the new line.

 

Walk along the old Ffestiniog railway....11.

Looking over the boulders to the tunnel.

  

Track next to the viaduct.

  

Ruined cottage at the side of the new line.

 

Walk along the old Ffestiniog railway....10.

Looking along the viaduct from the tunnel.

  

Looking back to the tunnel.

  

The viaduct is blocked.

 

Ffestiniog mountain railway, second walk....9.

Back to normal after my week away.

 

South side of the old tunnel.
   

Side of the viaduct.

  

Sheep grazing.

 

Ffestiniog railway.......22.

The old track across the viaduct. Way in the distance the now decommissioned nuclear power station.

Nothing like that existed when the track was first laid.

Ruined house at the side of the new track.

 

Ffestiniog railway.......20.

The track emerges from the new tunnel.

  

The track to the old tunnel along the viaduct is also blocked by boulders.

I came across this very old pic on the web, it was called the tunnelmess, built for the tunnelers.

   Colour photography wasn't available when the railway was constructed so not sure about this, could have been a painting I suppose.

 

Daniel's Mill....7

Smoke signals as a "Severn Valley Railway" engine passes overhead.

Between the viaduct pillars.

The waterwheel.

The mill.