In 1949, Tom Rolt, who was a writer, visited the railway. David Curwen, who was a locomotive engineer, visited with him. In the summer of 1950, Rolt wrote a letter to the "Birmingham Post". He told them that it was important to rescue Talyllyn. Many people had interest in this. On October 11 1950, a meeting was held about it in Birmingham at the Imperial Hotel. About 70 people attended. Rolt told them that he thought they should make a committee, or a team, to look into buying the railway. The committee met again on October 23. They met with the people who ran Haydn Jones' finances after he had died.
It was very hard due to the law to make the committee the owners of the railway. Both the committee and Haydn Jones' people thought it was a good idea to have Jones' stop being the owner. They decided to make a new company, called Talyllyn Holdings, the owner. The company was a mix of people from the committee and from Jones' group. The company started running the railway on February 8 1951. They changed the name of the company to a non-profit called the Talyllyn Railway Preservation Society. The Society started to advertise that they wanted to save the railway and asked for people to donate money. They also wanted to find people to volunteer to help run the railway. By May, almost 650 people had donated and became members of the Society. The railway re-opened on Whit Monday, on May 14 1951. Trains ran between Wharf and Rhydyronen. Starting on June 4, trains ran daily until the summer. David Curwen was the Chief Mechanical Engineer.
When the railway re-opened again it needed a lot of work done to it to fix things and update it. They bought two more steam locomotives from Corris Railway in 1951. They were named "Sir Haydn" and "Edward Thomas". In 1951, "Sir Haydn" became the first new locomotive to travel on Talyllyn Railway in over 80 years. It derailed a lot because the Talyllyn Railway was slightly wider than the Corris Railway. Eventually this was fixed by changing the width of the railway and changing parts of the locomotive wheels. The "Edward Thomas" needed a lot of service, but it was too expensive to fix. A man who was on the Preservation Society board of directors, John Alcock, had his company, the Hunslet Engine Company fix it for free.
Another locomotive was donated to the Society by an engineering company in Birmingham called Abelsons Limited. The locomotive was named "Douglas". It was built for the depot railway and was used by the RAF Calshot until 1945. It started being used by the public in 1954. Through the 1950s volunteers and Society staff members helped fix the railway tracks.
On May 22 1957, the BBC produced a live television program at the railway. Wynford Vaughan Thomas and Huw Weldon road the train from Dolgoch to Abergynolwyn. As a result of the television program, more people used the train. Over 57,000 people road the train that summer. The money that those people paid helped the Society improve the railway. In 1958, the original "Talyllyn" locomotive was put back in service.
At the Tywyn Wharf train station a museum was opened. It is called the Narrow Gauge Railway Museum. The first object that was displayed at the museum was the Guinness Brewery locomotive. It was donated to the museum in 1952. The museum opened in 1956.
Hill of Howth Tramway
The Hill of Howth Tramway, or just Howth Tram, operated from June 1901 to June 1959 and served Howth Head, near Dublin, Ireland. The service was run by the Great Northern Railway (Ireland) (GNR(I)), which viewed it as a way to bring more customers to its railway stations at Sutton and Howth.
Trolley pole
A trolley pole is a tapered cylindrical pole of wood or metal, used to transfer electricity from a "live" overhead wire to the control and propulsion equipment of a tram or trolley bus. The use of overhead wire in a railway electrification system is said to be the 1880 invention of Frank J. Sprague.
Bow collector
A bow collector is one of the three main devices used on tramcars to transfer electric current from the overhead lines above to the tram below. While once very common in continental Europe, it has now been largely replaced by the pantograph.
Pantograph (rail)
A pantograph is a device that collects electric current from overhead lines for electric trains or trams. The term stems from the resemblance to pantograph devices for copying writing and drawings.
Assist (ice hockey)
In ice hockey, an assist is when up to two players of the scoring team shoots, passes or sends the puck towards the scoring teammate, or touched it in any other way which made the goal. This usually means that they "assisted" in the goal. At most, there can only be 2 assists for each goal.
Water Stratford
Water Stratford is a village and civil parish in the Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England.
List of settlements in Cambridgeshire
The following is a list of cities, towns and villages in the county of Cambridgeshire, England, by letter:
Abington Pigotts - Aldreth - America - Arrington - Ashley - Abbots Ripton - Abbotsley - Alconbury - Alconbury Weston - Alwalton
Babraham - Balsham - Bar Hill - Barnwell - Barrington - Bartlow - Barton - Barway - Bassingbourn - Benwick - Blackhorse Drove - Bottisham - Bourn - Boxworth - Brinkley - Burrough Green - Burwell - Barham - Bluntisham - Brampton - Brington - Broughton - Buckden - Buckworth - Bury - Bythorn
Caldecote - Caldecote (Huntingdonshire) - Cambourne - Cambridge - Camps End - Cardinals Green - Carlton - Castle Camps - Catworth - Caxton - Chatteris - Cherry Hinton - Chesterton, Cambridge - Chesterton, Huntingdonshire - Chettisham - Cheveley - Childerley - Chippenham - Chittering - Christchurch - Coates - Coldham - Collett's Bridge - Colne - Conington - Coppingford - Comberton - Commercial End - Coton - Cottenham - Coveney - Covington - Croxton - Croydon
Ditton Green - Doddington - Downham - Dry Drayton - Dullingham - Duxford - Denton - Diddington
East Hatley - Eastrea - Eaton Ford - Eaton Socon - Elm - Elsworth - Eltisley - Ely - Euximoor - Earith - Easton - Ellington - Elton - Eynesbury - Eynesbury Hardwicke
Fen Ditton - Fen Drayton - Fitton End - Fordham - Foul Anchor - Four Gotes - Fowlmere - Foxton - Friday Bridge - Fulbourn - Farcet - Fenstanton - Fenton - Folksworth
Gamlingay - Girton - Gorefield - Grantchester - Graveley - Great Abington - Great Chishill - Great Eversden - Great Shelford - Great Wilbraham - Guilden Morden - Guyhirn - Glatton - Godmanchester - Grafham - Great Gidding - Great Gransden - Great Paxton - Great Staughton
Haddenham - Hardwick - Harlton - Harston - Haslingfield - Hatley St George - Hatley - Hauxton - Heydon - Highfields - Hildersham - Hinxton - Histon - Horningsea - Horseheath - Haddon - Hail Weston - Hamerton - Hemingford Abbots - Hemingford Grey - Hilton - Holme - Holywell - Houghton - Huntingdon
Ickleton - Impington - Isleham
Kennett - Keyston - Kimbolton - Kingston - Kings Ripton - Kirtling - Knapwell - Kneesworth
Landbeach - Leverington - Linton - Litlington - Little Abington - Little Chishill - Little Ditton - Little Downham - Little Eversden - Little Gransden - Little Ouse - Little Shelford - Little Thetford - Little Wilbraham - Littleport - Lode - Lolworth - Long Meadow - Longstanton - Longstowe - Leighton Bromswold - Little Gidding - Little Paxton
Madingley - Manea - March - Melbourn - Meldreth - Mepal - Milton - Murrow - Midloe - Molesworth - Morborne
Newton - Needingworth
Oakington - Orwell - Over - Offord Cluny - Offord D'Arcy - Oldhurst - Old Weston
Pampisford - Papworth Everard - Papworth St Agnes - Parson Drove - Peterborough - Pondersbridge - Prickwillow - Pymore - Perry - Pidley
Queen Adelaide
Rampton - Ramsey Mereside - Reach - Ring's End - Ramsey - Ramsey Forty Foot - Ramsey Heights - Ramsey St Mary's - The Raveleys