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Bala And Dolgelly Railway
All photographs of this railway in date order.
![Locomotive 'Merionnydd' at Llanuwchllyn terminus on the Bala Lake Railway in July 1981.<br><br>[Colin Miller /07/1981]](/images/32000/32483.jpg "Llanuwchllyn")
!['Holy War' with a train between Bala and Llanuwchllyn on the Bala Lake Railway in July 1981.<br><br>[Colin Miller /07/1981]](/images/41000/41884.jpg "Bala Lake")
![Diesel-hydraulic <i>Merionnydd</i> approaches the eastern terminus at Bala (Penybont) - formerly Bala Lake Halt on the GWR line from Ruabon to Barmouth junction.<br><br>[Colin Miller /07/1981]](/images/46000/46874.jpg "Bala")
![Looking towards Bala from the platform at Llanuwchllyn on the Bala Lake Railway in the summer of 2006.<br><br>[Bruce McCartney 02/07/2006]](/images/35000/35740.jpg "Llanuwchllyn")
![Rail bridges over Afon Wnion, complete with access steps to trackbed level, still extant in December 2011 alongside the A494 a short distance north of Rhydymain on the former route between Bala and Dolgellau.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 06/12/2011]](/images/37000/37034.jpg "Wnion Halt")
![Dinorwic Hunslet <I>Holy War</I> runs through the tiny request halt at Pentrepiod without stopping on 17th September 2016. The train was heading from Llanuwchlynn to Bala alongside Bala Lake, which can be seen behind the train. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 17/09/2016]](/images/56000/56632.jpg "Pentrepiod Halt")
![Llangower station, mid way along the Bala Lake Railway, was re-opened on a slightly different site to the standard gauge halt that closed with the line in 1965. The BLR re-opened the four mile stretch of line in 1972 so it was only fully closed for seven years and their narrow gauge trains have operated ever since. View towards Llanuwchllyn on 17th September 2016.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 17/09/2016]](/images/56000/56760.jpg "Llangower")
![Because the line was only completely closed for a few years the original buildings at Llanuwchllyn have survived and are still in use, including this waiting room (now a store) on the old Dolgellau platform. View towards Bala on 17th September 2016. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 17/09/2016]](/images/56000/56857.jpg "Llanuwchllyn")
![The interior of the still operational GWR signal box at Llanuwchllyn in September 2016. These days the levers and block instruments control movements on the narrow gauge tracks of the Bala Lake Railway. The box is open to the public on the strict understanding that you 'Do not touch!'<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 17/09/2016]](/images/57000/57183.jpg "Llanuwchllyn")
![Llanuwchllyn, looking towards Dolgellau in September 2016.The still operational signal box now overlooks the narrow gauge Bala Lake tracks but much of this former GWR station looks as it did before closure in 1965. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 17/09/2016]](/images/57000/57495.jpg "Llanuwchllyn")
![Summer lakeside scene on the Bala Lake Railway in 2016 as a train disappears towards Bala passing through Pentrepiod Halt. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 17/09/2016]](/images/59000/59552.jpg "Pentrepiod Halt")
