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28/05/2024

10/05/2024

Feel that Festival ⚡ BUZZ ⚡

Pick up a copy of this month’s Buzz Magazine Wales for your essential guide to Hay Festival Hay-on-Wye 2024.

08/05/2024

No words needed, just Sunshine ….☀️ 🥳🙏💛

08/05/2024

Hay Festival, a gathering in the staggering beauty of the Brecon Beacons National Park. Writers, comedians and musicians that have the capacity to change our lives, to share new visions of the world, and to do that incredible thing – to renew our sense of wonder. Join us and join the thing that ma...

08/05/2024

It's going to be a scorcher tomorrow ☀️
A perfect day to visit our lovely town and support our fab independent businesses 📚☕🍦🍨🥞

04/05/2024

We currently have our No 1 "Santa Teresa" Locomotive in service.

No.1 was built by Baldwin of Philadelphia, USA in 1897 (No 15511) as a 2-6-0 tender locomotive for the Mogyana Railway in Brazil. It was sold by them to the Santa Teresa Sugar Mill, where it was converted to 2′-6′ gauge. Out of use in 1976, it was brought to the UK in 1990. Restoration and re-gauging back to 1′-113/4” was started but carried out to a very poor standard and subsequently abandoned.

The locomotive was purchased by Brecon Mountain Railway in 2002 and has been completely rebuilt retaining the original cylinders, main frame, valve gear and some of the running gear. The loco has been converted from a 2-6-0 to a 2-6-2. The boiler, smokebox, cab, wheels, axles, rear sub-frame, rear truck, front pilot and new tender have all been built in our workshops at Brecon Mountain Railway.
Santa Teresa No 1 came into service here in June 2019.

If you would like to book a trip on this beautiful locomotive, please visit: www.bmr.wales.

We look forward to seeing you!

30/04/2024

27/04/2024