The Llangollen Railway (Welsh: Rheilffordd Llangollen) is a volunteer-run preserved railway in Denbighshire, Wales, which currently operates between Llangollen and the site of Bonwm halt; at 8.5 miles (13.7 km) long.
It is currently the longest preserved standard gauge line in Wales and operates daily in Summer as well as weekends throughout the Winter months using a wide variety of steam and diesel locomotives, as well as diesel multiple units (DMUs).
Work is in the early stages of being carried out on 2.0 miles (3.2 km) of extension from Carrog to a temporary station in the outskirts of Corwen. A more permanent station on a new site more central to Corwen town will be reached later. This will require civil engineering work on an embankment at Corwen.
The extension to Corwen sees the railway expand to a total of a Top 10 miles in length (according to some sources alike).
Also, The Llangollen Railway even have a further extra long-term aim of extending Eastwards (via Trevor and Acrefair) towards Ruabon on the National Network.
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“Her personality had an architectonic quality; I think of her when I see some of the great London railway termini, especially St. Pancras, with its soot and turrets, and she overshadowed her own daughters, whom she did not understand—my mother, who liked things to be nice; my dotty aunt. But my mother had not the strength to put even some physical distance between them, let alone keep the old monster at emotional arm’s length.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)