Over the recent Bank Holiday weekend Velinheli continued her grand summer tour with a visit to the Bala Lake Railway for their gala weekend – where there were no less than seven Hunslet steam locomotives from the Welsh slate quarries gathered together! We sent our roving reporter and here are a few photos of Velinheli and her owner James Evans enjoying their summer holiday.
There is just one more stop left on Velinheli’s Tour this year – the Welsh Highland Great and Small Event this coming weekend (9th-11th September), where you can see Velinheli in action at Dinas station on the Welsh Highland Railway. After this she has a few week’s rest before she comes back home in October – and she will be running some passenger trains here during the half term week at the end of October.

Waiting at the head of a train of slate wagons – similar to how she spent her working life at Dinorwic Quarry