News from the Bala Lake Railway
December 2016 Update The Santa Specials reflected what the Bala Lake Railway has achieved throughout 2016. Over the two days of Santa activity, the trains were filled to capacity, even the extra service which was organised for the Saturday afternoon. The weather did nothing to dissuade visitors and, even though…
November 2016 Update At the time of writing our 2016 Santa Special Trains are all fully booked. In fact, the demand was so great that we scheduled an extra train for 16.30 on Saturday 10th which also sold out very quickly. Naturally, dry weather is the desired option, and the…
October 2016 Update It has always been the firm intention of those behind The Red Dragon Project, our quest to extend the railway back into down-town Bala, that news will be announced when something of importance has happened, rather than speculative hopes and wishes. While there is an immense amount…
September 2016 Update At the risk of sounding repetitive, the BLR has done it again. The 2nd October marked the end of the main operating season, although there is a lot of activity at the end of October and early November over the Halloween and half-term period (more later). The…
August 2016 Update Any tourist based operation expects, indeed, hopes to be busy during the main holiday month of August, and the Bala Lake Railway was nothing if not well patronised by visitors. The Steam Gala, held over four days of the Bank Holiday weekend, was definitely a popular venue,…
July 2016 Update July was another busy month on the railway, and passenger numbers were up (again) by 6% on July last year, but it is of note that the start of the school holidays brought even greater numbers to Llanuwchllyn, up by a full 12% on last year. On…
June 2016 Update After all the excitement and success of May, with the launch ofDiana into service on the railway, followed by the Photo Charter, both events being blessed with perfect weather, one might suppose that June would be quiet by comparison. Not a bit of it, and it proved…
May 2016 Update What a month there has been on the railway! Leaving the brilliantly staged Bank Holiday Gala and the launch of Diana until later, we were thrilled to learn that that the Bala Lake Railway has been awarded a TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence for 2016. We would like…
April 2016 Update Passenger numbers, by their very nature, do not always follow strict patterns. Those of April 2015 were very healthy, largely as the result of the big celebrations in the middle of the month in honour of the return to service of Winifred, our Hunslet which had been…
March 2016 Update We have already reported on the first services this year in February, but the first major passenger activities were around a particularly early Easter. The enthusiasm of visitors was as good as ever, although the Bank Holiday Monday was traditionally damp, hence the numbers were down. But…
