Driver’s Eye View - Welsh Highland Railway (Rheilffordd Eryri) - Porthmadog to Caernarfon

With just one day left to film the Welsh Highland Railway and there were no trains scheduled to cover the full route from Porthmadog to Caernarfon. Claire who had kindly arranged for me to film over the previous two days worked out that I could film the complete route although no trains were booked to make the full journey. I attached a camera to the Porthmadog to Beddgelert train, at Beddgelert the locomotive that had worked the first train of the day from Porthmadog took the afternoon train on to Caernarfon, there was no return working, so I followed by car giving me several opportunities to film the train along the way. I arrived early at Porthmadog for a tasty breakfast in Spooners Cafe, before filming the train making its way over the Cob from Boston Lodge where the empty stock and locomotive had been stabled over night, my heart sank as it began to rain. I mounted the camera on the locomotive hoping that it was only a shower, as it turned out the rain persisted all day, I watched the video back on my co