Rolling Stock On Display Outside The Museum
- Corris Railway Mail Wagon 2 ft 3 in (686 mm), used for carrying mail by gravity down the line every week-day afternoon, lamp bracket fitted at down end. Four-wheel, end door, 1-ton wagon ex-GWR 31992, TR 10, Turner axleboxes, bought by TR in 1951 and donated to Museum 1994.
- Corris Railway. Incline balancing wagon used on incline at Aberlefenni. Given to Museum 2006.
- Crofty Tin Mine 1 ft 10 in (560 mm) 14 cu ft capacity tipping mine tub to Museum 1996.
- Great Western Railway steel bodied 1 ft 11 1⁄2 in (597 mm) slate wagon for use in Blaenau Ffestiniog area: purchased 1980.
- London and North Western Railway 1 ft 11 1⁄2 in (597 mm) steel slate wagon, built at Earlstown 1887, LMS 284465, used in Blaenau Ffestiniog area on piggy back wagons to carry slate for transshipment. Donated by BR 1964.
- Talyllyn Railway 2 ft 3 in (690 mm) rebuilt wagons, using original and replica steel and cast iron parts and new timber. (The numbers are simply for identification and do not relate to historic numbers)
- 101 – two bar wooden slate wagon, 1 ton capacity: the first item in the Museum collection 1953.
- 117 – metal bodied incline wagon: to Museum 1973.
- 136 – three bar wooden slate wagon, 1 ton capacity: to Museum 1994.
- 146 – covered wooden van, with brake, based on parts lying at Rhydyronen from 1930’s to 1997.
- 164 – two bar wooden slate wagon, 1 ton capacity with brakes: purchased 2000.
- 178 – display wagon at Neptune Road entrance.
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