BLR Extension Planning Refusal

The Bala Lake Railway’s planning application for extending the railway into Bala town centre was heard today, 19th April 2023. The Snowdonia National Park’s Planning Officer presented the railway’s case with a recommendation for refusal. The fundamental reason being that there can be no certainty that with additional tourists coming…

Estyniad y Bala/Bala Extension

Pobl Y Bala, Llangywer, Llanuwchllyn a’r cylch rydym yn apelio am eich help. Mae Rheilffordd Llyn Tegid wedi treulio dros 10 mlynedd gan wario dros £1.4miliwn yn datblygu cynllyn i ymestyn y rheilffordd i’r Bala. Pam bo ni’n gwneud hyn?  Mae’r rheilffordd yn cludo ymwelwyr a phobl lleol rhwng Llanuwchllyn…

BLR News - January 2023 Edition

NEWS UPDATE No. 117 There is truth in the old military axiom; “Assumption is the mother of all foul-ups”. This was brought home to this writer recently when an acquaintance, (thankfully nothing more so), muttered in a matter-of-fact manner that “there’s not much happening on a railway over the winter”.…