Re: Ffestiniog Railway 'Welsh Pony' restoration video

Under British law a new locomotive must be "type approved", an expensive and long lasting process which makes building new locomotives from scratch difficult. Even so the express Pacific 'Tornado' was completed two or three years ago and the same group are planning a brand new 2-8-2 based on an LNER design, intended to be known as 'Prince of Wales'.

'Welsh Pony' of course is one of four surviving 150 year old locomotives which were the first narrow gauge engines to earn money anywhere in the world when they were put on Ffestiniog rails. General Palmer specially arranged to visit Porthmadog during his honeymoon to see these machines at work before returning to Colorado to build the Denver and Rio Grande -- America's first narrow gauge railroad.

Bob Gartside