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.
Velinheli and owner James Evans obviously enjoying their summer holiday!
Waiting at the head of a train of slate wagons – similar to how she spent her working life at Dinorwic Quarry
Waiting for a passenger train to arrive behind Diana
Next to Kerr Stuart locomotive ‘Diana’
A Launceston style double header! Velinheli and Winifred (identical sister locomotive to Lilian).