A Steam train working hard leaving Llangollen
A Steam train working hard leaving Llangollen
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| June - The next stage was in our plans was to go to Llangollen before the main season started - it is a popular canal and up to 400 boats a week visit it during the peak season. We were lucky and got one of the dozen moorings in Llangollen at the weekend of the steam train festival. They had 6 engines in steam and due to a shortage of trains were running them two per train. The rain stopped the second day and we had a trip up and back on different trains. Other highlights of the Llangollen were the Pontcysyllte aqueduct where one passes 120 feet over the Dee in a 200 years old 7 foot wide cast-iron trough 1000 foot long supported on impossibly narrow stone pillars. We had also wanted to go down the 4 miles so far opened of the Montgomery canal but problems had closed it and we could have waited weeks. |