I think you are referring to the 'Radio Tours' that ran in summer from the North Wales resorts. The 'Radio' was a running commentary. I think they ran Rhyl, Corwen, Barmouth, Afon Wen, Bangor, Rhyl.  Would loved to have taken one.

29th July 1954

B.R.
Pwllheli Land Cruise

Loco Used   2251 class 0-6-0 no. 3202
Stock Used   4 coaches
Route :

Loco   Route
3202   Pwllheli - Afonwen - Porthmadoc - Minffordd - Harlech - Barmouth - Barnmouth Junction - Penmaenpool - Bala Junction - Corwen - Ruthin - Denbigh - Mold & Denbigh Jn - Foryd - Foryd Jn - Rhyl
3202   Rhyl - Llandudno Junction - Bangor - Caernarvon - Dinas - Penygroes - Ynys - Afonwen (1)
3202   Afonwen - Pwllheli

Notes :
(1) Passengers for stations to Barmouth changed to 5.38pm from Afon Wen (9004 on 4 coaches).

(2) Brian Basterfield comments: The Pwllheli Land Cruise in 1954 operated Tuesdays and Thursdays 29th June to 26th August. There were 4 Land Cruises operating around the North Wales circuit in the summer of 1954, The other 3 Land Cruises started from the North Wales resorts and were usually 6 coach trains (including one which used "Coronation" stock). They were operated by "Mickey Mouse" Ivatt 464xx 2-6-0's. Not sure how long Collett 0-6-0's continued to visit the North Wales Coast. They may also have gone over to Ivatt 2-6-0 operation later.

Details of the other land cruises is required - over to you dear visitor!

Also, was it BR that sold circular tour tickets via that line and back along the North Wales Coast, or was it a train that actually ran right round, and marketed as such?

Of all the lines closed in the 1960s that I most regret never really knowing is the old Cambrian line from Ruabon to Morfa Mawddach, which closed from 18th January 1965.

Re-opening railway lines that were shut in the 1960s and have left large towns without a direct rail link would cost £2bn, Transport for Wales has said.

TfW looked at the line between Carmarthen and Aberystwyth, Ceredigion and Afon Wen and Bangor in Gwynedd.

Chief executive James Price said it would be "very costly" to develop and "difficult" to implement.

Campaigners have said it was unclear how the rail operator got that figure as all studies had not yet been done.

What date is that timetable?

Some bits of it are most confusing. It took me quite some time to twig that the times for "Bala" are NOT the times for Bala Junction, but the times at what I think of as Bala Town on the Blaenau branch.

Then there's a couple of odd connections where it looks as if trains ran non-stop through Shrewsbury (one on the 08:35am up from Dolgellau and another on the 6:10pm down from Ruabon) - was that really true?

And there's the unbalanced 6:55pm up from Dolgellau on Sundays - was that the mail train perhaps? The weekday equivalent, the 7:35pm up from Dolgellau, looks like the return working of the 4:10pm down from Ruabon.  So did Sunday's train run empty out from Ruabon in the late afternoon - but not in service so as to avoid offending chapel-goers?