‘Dirty Chappies VI’


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Over the weekend of the 30th - 31st October 2004, the volunteers of the Welsh Highland Railway held their sixth annual gala known as Yma O Hyd (or in English, Dirty Chappies VI).

The great massif of Cnicht dominates this unusal view of Gelert and its train, as it heads southward from Pen-y-Mount. To the right of Cnicht lies the Croesor valley, at the head of which are the remains of extensive slate quarry workings. This industry was one of the main reasons the railway was built back in the 1860s (more history).

Ben Fisher

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