Tanat Valley Railway inc. Monorail BLS day out 2/3/22

Описание: As part of our 2 day trip to Wales, we visited 3 railways as part of a BLS day out, Tanat Valley was one of these.

This Railway is currently raising funds to purchase a running permit, in order to open to the public! As of current, it is a private site.

I must say, once this site is open to the public, itll be an amazing popular attraction, standard gauge, narrow gauge and the only working ridable monorail in the UK!

For the first half, we boarded the Railways two ex Arriva Trains Wales/ Transport for Wales Class 143s no. 143 601 & 616. These took us to the halfway point of the line, where they could go no further. Then they proceeded to the other end of the line, where the collection of locomotives were.

Here was a 2ft gauge stretch of track, in which they managed to start up one of the lister engines, and do small shuttles up and down the line.

Finally, there was the monorail, a unique piece of equipment which you can actually ride and operate! This is sure to be a popular attraction! It goes around in an almost figure of eight, so plenty of track. Hidden in a container, is a monorail steam locomotive, very unique, it is currently undergoing restoration to working order once more. Of course, i couldn't resist looking around the loco.