The section between Abergynolwyn and quarry was worked as a private mineral tramway.

The Talyllyn Railway opened in July 1865 for public traffic between Tywyn and Abergynolwyn. The railway was originally constructed to carry slate from Bryn Eglwys quarry to a standard gauge transhipment siding at Tywyn. This narrow gauge line runs from Tywyn on the Cardigan Bay coast of Wales some 7.1/4 miles inland to Nant Gwernol. gauge Welsh Talyllyn Railway is famous the world over for being the very first railway to be preserved back in 1951. To my mind, this is the easier option as it saves time and money and also gives you a CD-ROM master copy that you can use again and again if you need to reload the This can take anything up to two hours depending on download speed - we don't all have the luxury of getting the Internet down a broadband drainpipe just yet.Īs an alternative, you can purchase a copy of the Talyllyn Railway route, rolling stock and activities on a CD-ROM from UKTrainsim for only £4.50 including P&P. I haven't been on the real Talyllyn Railway for many years, but after using the simulation, I now want to return and ride the line again, which surely can't be a bad thing - damn good PR for the Talyllyn Railway too.īack to Steve Pontin's Talyllyn Railway MSTS route - it's available by downloading it from the internet via the excellent UKTrainsim web site (), which at a shade short of 40 MB, can take quite a while on an ordinary 56K modem. However, Steve Pontin's MSTS Talyllyn Railway route is designed to allow both TR and other narrow gauge outline rolling stock to run in a realistic environment, with the correct looking narrow gauge track and other railway infrastructure. Since being releasd back in miid-2001, it has only been possible to run narrow gauge outline locomotives and rolling stock on MSTS standard gauge routes, which was far from ideal as everything is totally out of proportion.

With the addition of Kevin Martin's realistic Talyllyn Railway locomotives and rolling stock it is also possible to run a prototypical Talyllyn Railway timetable with the correct trains that run just like the real thing. It’s now possible to drive an authentic narrow gauge train the full 7.1/4 miles all the way up to Nant Gwernol and back to Tywyn Wharf station again.

Narrow gauge advances have been made on Microsoft's Train Simulator (MSTS) over the past eight months with release of the complete Welsh narrow gauge Talyllyn Railway route created by Steve Pontin.

Volume 2, Issue Number 3, Third Quarter 2003 Published with permission. Originally published in Woodbridge's Train Simulation Craftsman Jct| About Us | Products and Services | Contact Us

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