A week at Rhiw Goch: Blanche crossing Cei Mawr

The Thursday view out of the "office window" of Rhiw Goch Signal Box on the Ffestiniog Railway.

1893 Hunslet locomotive - Blanche - with 11:00 service to Blaenau Ffestiniog from Porthmadog crossing Cei Mawr - the 60 foot high dry stone embankment.

Blanche was built for the Penrhyn Quarry to haul slate waggons from the quarries near Bethesda to Port Penrhyn (near Bangor). In the mid 1960's with the quarries contracting, the Ffestiniog Railway bought Blanche and her twin sister Linda for use on the expanding restored line.

The week at Rhiw Goch
Monday 23 August - Merddin Emrys
Tuesday 24 August - Earl of Merioneth
Wednesday 25 August - Talisein
Thursday 26 August - Blanche