Welsh Highland Railway Restoration
The restoration of the Welsh Highland Railway has a colourful and complex history. This article provides the modern history:
Read more about Welsh Highland Railway Restoration: The Background of The Welsh Highland Railway (WHR), Welsh Highland Light Railway (1964) Limited, Controversy and Complication, Obstruction and Objections, Two Welsh Highland Railways
Famous quotes containing the words welsh, highland, railway and/or restoration:
“God defend me from that Welsh fairy,
Lest he transform me to a piece of cheese!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“If you would feel the full force of a tempest, take up your residence on the top of Mount Washington, or at the Highland Light, in Truro.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“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)
“Men who are occupied in the restoration of health to other men, by the joint exertion of skill and humanity, are above all the great of the earth. They even partake of divinity, since to preserve and renew is almost as noble as to create.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)