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BACK TO 1911 AT RHYL MINIATURE RAILWAY
Volunteers at Britain’s oldest miniature railway have been busy restoring the line’s first locomotive from 1911 Prince Edward of Wales. Les Hughes, Chairman of Rhyl Steam Preservation Trust, said ‘In 2014 we had the opportunity to buy back the railway’s original...
PIRATES TAKE OVER AT MARINE LAKE !
Captain Hook and his Pirate friends took over Marine Lake for a Swashbuckling weekend on May bank holiday 2016. The ‘Battle of the White Swan’ took place each day on the lake itself – a spectacle for all to see! There was free family entertainment, on all three days...
To start at the Beginning
It was Henry Greenly (1876–1947) who was the true founder of Rhyl Miniature Railway. As a prolific designer of miniature steam locomotives he was a genius. It was Greenly who in 1911 first described the Marine Lake site in Rhyl as ideal for a miniature railway, and...
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