A SPECIAL celebration saw the Glyn Valley Tramway celebrate its 150th anniversary at the weekend.
The track was a narrow gauge railway that ran through the Ceiriog Valley in north east Wales connecting Chirk with Glyn Ceiriog.
It first opened in 1873 with the service horse-drawn before steam locomotives were introduced, and the first passenger trains and others that serviced local quarries.
The weekend's event saw visitors transported back to that era with 'Nebels' pulling wagons along the track in Chirk - for the first time in 88 years! - while an old bus took them up to the top of the valley to see the old tramway station in Glyn Ceiriog.
The event was also a fundraiser for the restoration of the Glyn Valley Tramway.
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The Glyn Valley Tramway.
In October 2007, the Glyn Valley Tramway Trust was formed with the aim of restoring part of the tramway and in 2002 the Trust announced plans to rebuild the section of the tramway between Chirk and Pontaen.
In 1885, additional parliamentary powers were obtained to abandon the Quinta Tramway section between Pontfaen and Chirk Bank, replacing it with a new line from Pontfaen to the Great Western Railway's Chirk station.
The railway's financial situation declined steadily during the 1920s and by 1932 a bus service was started in the valley to rival the tramway which was wound up in 1935 with the track removed in 1936.
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