Fun on a single rail in the border country
Nantmawr - riding the monorail
© Geoff’s Rail Diaries 2017
Geoff’s Rail Diaries
10 September 2017
Heritage Open Day (it’s a
weekend now) is here again,
and we’re dodging the showers
on the Welsh border to visit
the newly-developed monorail
layout at Nantmawr. Last year,
the equipment had only just
arrived; now there’s a working
monorail line, with rides on a
couple of wagons adapted to
carry passengers.
We had to have a ride, of
course. There’s only one
working locomotive at present,
and it’s not overpowered, so
human assistance is sometimes
required on the steeper parts.
“The last time I was on a ride
like that was in the
fairground”, my wife
commented. She’d enjoyed it
greatly - this is real railway fun.
There’s no shortage of equipment here. One day, perhaps, the steam loco will be in action
again, and there’s plenty of track to extend the layout. This railway could go far...
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