page_title: Tanat Valley Light Railway
section_title: Monorail
hierarchical_section_title: Tanat Valley Light Railway / Heritage railway / Monorail
caption_attribution_description: English: Portable industrial monorail designed in the 1940s by Road Machines (Drayton) Ltd and used for construction projects in the mid 20th century. Acquired by the Tanat Valley Light Railway in Shropshire, England around 2016.
context_page_description: The Tanat Valley Light Railway was a 15-mile long standard gauge light railway. It ran westwards from Llanyblodwel in Shropshire, about 5 miles or 8 km south-west of Oswestry. It crossed the Wales–England border and continued up the Tanat valley, terminating at Llangynog in Powys. It opened in 1904, providing access to a fairly remote area, and transport facilities for slate production and agriculture.
  Its promoters were unable to raise the capital to construct the line, but a number of government grants and considerable generosity by the Cambrian Railways company enabled the building of the line. The company was always in debt and in 1921 was obliged to sell the line to the Cambrian Railways.
  Rural passenger use collapsed and the railway closed to passengers in 1951, and completely in 1964.
  A new Tanat Valley Light Railway Company was established, and in 2009 opened a heritage railway centre at Nantmawr, close to the earlier Tanat Valley line.
context_section_description: Around 2016 the railway acquired a portable industrial monorail, designed by Road Machines (Drayton) Ltd and used for construction projects in the mid 20th century, along with several diesel locomotives and an 0-2-0 steam locomotive from its last permanent storage at Blaenau Ffestiniog.
caption: Portable industrial monorail designed in the 1940s by Road Machines (Drayton) Ltd.
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