22/06/2025
Brecon Mountain Railway today with a sold out coach. Showery on route but dried up nicely for our 12.30 train.
Did you know ?
The line runs about 4.5 miles (7 km) and the
highest Point is Torpantau tunnel, the highest railway tunnel in Great Britain.
Opened 1980 and buillt on the trackbed of the Brecon & Merthyr Railway, which closed in 1964 the original construction began in 1978, with the first passenger train running in 1980.
The railway was extended to Dolygaer in 1995 and to Torpantau in 2014.