Trainspotting in Wales

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Linda's dapper fireman tends to her watering at the Porthmadog watertower.  Just out of the frame to the left, a set of narrow-gauge tank cars hold fuel oil for the locomotive's bunkers and tenders.   All regularly-working FR engines have been converted to burning oil to reduce the risk of lineside fires while traversing Snowdon National Park.   

 

 

 

 

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