Dolbadarn

BruceB · Post by **BruceB** » Fri Feb 21, 2003 8:57 pm

Me and pitleyfalley were dissusing Dolbadarn.. the loco of many guises!

pitleyfalley says that he has seen a Alice Class called Dolbadarn working in the quarries in the late 1960s.

However, the Dolbadarn now working on the Llanberris Lake Railway looks like one of the two locomotive that were built to work Port Dinorwic, with a large black dome. Many sources say todays Dolbadarn was originally No.2 of the 2 locos at Port Dinorwic.

Have there been then, two Dolbadarns, one a Alice, which possibly scrapped and one a Port Dinorwic loco originally called 'No.2', which is now on the Llanberris Lake Railway?

Wow that was a mouthfull!

Bruce

kevmt · Post by **kevmt** » Fri Feb 21, 2003 9:30 pm

I think there was only one Dolbadarn, that as you say, was originally called no 2 and as such worked the Port dinorwic harbour until 1936 when it was replaced by a diesel. It was then transferred to the quarries. It was renamed Dolbadarn in 1946. Like most of the small Hunslets it has been rebuilt occasionally with parts off different locos and it did carry an Alice class, domeless boiler (wild asters) at one time.

Cheers
Kevin

pitleyfalley · Post by **pitleyfalley** » Fri Feb 21, 2003 9:32 pm

Ohh right, do you know where the domed boiler it had on the LLR came from?

Chris

kevmt · Post by **kevmt** » Fri Feb 21, 2003 9:46 pm

Chris,
The current boiler was custom built for it in 1997.

Cheers

Kevin

BruceB · Post by **BruceB** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 8:12 pm

Thanks Kevin for the infomation, but went did it first recive a domed bolier after its flat bolier? It had a domed bolier in 1971 when the LLR opened, so when did it receive it?

Bruce

kevmt · Post by **kevmt** » Sun Feb 23, 2003 8:02 am

It was completely rebuilt (with a domed boiler ) in 1969/70 in time for the opening of the LLR.

Cheers
Kevin

pitleyfalley · Post by **pitleyfalley** » Sun Feb 23, 2003 9:00 pm

Talking of Dolbadarn:

Tim now has a copy of a small yellow tank engine, which is in need of a dome before she is uploaded to UKTS

Hopefully will be out soon, to add to the other Llanberis engines out already, next will be a cabless Wild Aster....

Pitley-Falley

Rfairlie · Post by **Rfairlie** » Mon Feb 24, 2003 7:13 pm

Dolbadarns boiler was replaced with an alice class boiler from Wild Aster in 1952 which changed the apperance of the engine it apperas in some photos from the 1960 that it was painted in a patchy mix of choclate brown and indian red this is because the driver of the engine polished the tank so much that the paint rubbed off. The boiler that it carried from 1952 to 1970s is now fitted to Elidir. Dolbadarn was one of the last engines to work in a Welsh slate Quarry.

Tim