Hello everyone,
Just thought some of you might like to know that the Ffestiniog/Welsh Highland Railways have issued a notice stating that the planed opening of the Rhyd Ddu to Porthmadog section has been delayed and will now not open throughout at Easter 2009 as planed but will open only from Rydd Ddu to Beddgelert.
Through running to Porthmadog is now planned for 16th of May 2009 but will be limited to special services for supporters and sponsers with public running commencing in July 2009.
I notice that neither the Ffestiniog nor the Welsh Highland Railways websites mention anything of this.
Regards,
Darren.
Been news for a while now. See http://whr.bangor.ac.uk/whlatest.htm (http://whr.bangor.ac.uk/whlatest.htm)
Scroll down to "October 8th 2008" (after the Craven Images) for press release and timetable, in it's full coat-of-many-colours.
Was up last weekend and heard a delicious rumour from a friend-of-a-friend-of-a-mate-of-a-guy-down-the-pub (therefore it must be true!) that a person driving through Port was told to turn right by her sat-nav after coming off Britannia Bridge. So they turned onto the WHR track.
Luckily for the bank balance, though sadly for Parkside Dundas, I had no time to visit the station shop at Harbour
Yes Andy you are right there is mention of it on the project site, infact it seems that the text on the hand out I was given was taken directly from this source.
However I was refering to the offical websites of the Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railways which would be most peoples first place for infomation (it does come first on a Google search).
I know of several people all planning trips down at Easter for the reopening who knew nothing of this until I told them. Time to for the FR/WHR to crank up the publicity machine.
Darren.