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1965: Welsh SLATE TRAINS For SALE | Tonight | Retro Transport | BBC Archive
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6:07Now Playing"All you need is a bit of back garden, a couple of lengths of rail, and you're set up as a locomotive owner."
Fyfe Robertson reports from Penrhyn Slate Quarries, near Bethesda in North Wales, about the old steam locomotives which are to replaced by modern diesel engines. The steam engines are to be sold off, and Fyfe reckons he's spotted a couple of bargains in the Glyder 0-4-0, built in 1931, which could be yours for as little as 100 pounds, and the diminutive Hunslet Nesta 704, built way back in 1899, which could fetch as much as 300 pounds.
Clip taken from Tonight, originally broadcast on BBC One, 4 January, 1965.
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