| Re: OTD - 12th March (2009) - Croesor Crossing reopens Posted by grahame at 06:51, 12th March 2024 |      |
From the tail of a long and fascinating article at
https://www.welshhighlandheritage.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/CHRONICLES-revised-website-edition-Apr-2018-1.pdf
https://www.welshhighlandheritage.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/CHRONICLES-revised-website-edition-Apr-2018-1.pdf
It’s not the rôle of this essay to review the subsequent history but it is appropriate to note that a new crossing fitment was craned into position on Wednesday 1 November 2006 80 (albeit not connected on either narrow gauge side) and the first trial narrow gauge train crossed on Thursday 12 March 2009 . After various “false dawns”, new signalling – compatible with the European Rail Traffic Management System - was finally brought into full public passenger use on the standard gauge line on 28 October 2010. The first narrow-gauge passenger train under the new arrangements (being the first ever narrow gauge passenger train between Caernarfon and Porthmadog) ran on 30 October 2010. Regular WHR public services over the crossing (round trips between Porthmadog and Hafod-y-Llyn) started 8 January 2011; through services between Caernarfon and Porthmadog followed from 19 February 2011.
The article has gone - long live the article for members in our archive at http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/CHRONICLES-revised-website-edition-Apr-2018-1.pdf
| OTD - 12th March (2009) - Croesor Crossing reopens Posted by grahame at 00:27, 12th March 2022 | |
From the tail of a long and fascinating article at
https://www.welshhighlandheritage.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/CHRONICLES-revised-website-edition-Apr-2018-1.pdf
It’s not the rôle of this essay to review the subsequent history but it is appropriate to note that a new crossing fitment was craned into position on Wednesday 1 November 2006 80 (albeit not connected on either narrow gauge side) and the first trial narrow gauge train crossed on Thursday 12 March 2009 . After various “false dawns”, new signalling – compatible with the European Rail Traffic Management System - was finally brought into full public passenger use on the standard gauge line on 28 October 2010. The first narrow-gauge passenger train under the new arrangements (being the first ever narrow gauge passenger train between Caernarfon and Porthmadog) ran on 30 October 2010. Regular WHR public services over the crossing (round trips between Porthmadog and Hafod-y-Llyn) started 8 January 2011; through services between Caernarfon and Porthmadog followed from 19 February 2011.
