Shunter makes history by reaching end of line at Corwen

* The diesel shunter at the end of the line.

Monday saw the first locomotive to run through Llangollen Railway's new station site to the end of the line at Green Lane, Corwen,

During the course of an engineer's possession of the line for a weed-killing exercise, the class 08 diesel shunt ran from Llangollen to Corwen and entered the station loop to reverse back.

This was the first time since December 1964, when the line closed due to flooding, that a locomotive has reached the west end of the new Corwen station.

It was on a day when the volunteer work force was present preparing to reopen the works site for a resumption of building the final stages of the platform after the lockdown.

Railway spokesperson George Jones said: "It was a tremendous occasion for all present and a good result for all the effort which went into restoring the track over the gap which has existed in the embankment until it was infilled last year."