Travel – Wales – Vale of Rheidol

This is an excerpt from my book The Great Little Trains of Wales currently available at a discount.

The carriages on the train I travelled on were coloured in the GWR livery of light yellow and brown as were the station buildings on the way to the Devil’s Bridge. Most people seated themselves in the closed carriages. I thought I’d like to sit in the open carriage and possibly take pictures of the landscapes along the route. Perhaps, I should have been suspicious as to why no one else came to sit in this carriage with me? 

Anyway, we set off and the smoke from the steam engine is dispersing nicely except under the trees which form a canopy and don’t allow much smoke to pass through their leaves. Then I saw the tunnel approaching. I took a sip of water, swallowed, and took in a large breath of fresh air, closing my eyes as the smoke filtered all around me. The tunnel wasn’t long and we were soon out in the sunshine. The greyness soon dispersed and we were back amongst the fields and the landscapes.