Hills of Britain and Ireland
OS Map of Y Golfa
Height: 341m / 1120ft • Prominence: 165m / 541ft • Summit : trig point • Trip reports (hill-bagging)
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20-Dec-24 • coolmoodee0 • flickr
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Crossing on the Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway
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Sylfaen Surroundings
A view captured from the window a railway carriage as the train made its way towards Llanfair Caereinion. Note the cattle beyond the hedge and the dozens of rooks and or jackdaws in the nearest field.
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From A Railway Carriage
The Earl is running bunker first around Cwm Curves, near Sylfaen. In the left distance are the buildings of Middle Sylfaen farm. The picture was taken from the from the front balcony of a former Zillertalbahn carriage (B27). This train was the 08:45 empty stock working from Llanfair Caereinion to Welshpool. The was children's themed event at Welshpool over the weekend and, apart from the guard, the only passengers were the second loco crew.
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OS Map
This is OS mapping. In some areas, OpenStreetMap shows more footpaths
Spatial NI has online OSNI mapping. Click "Basemap Gallery" (4 squares icon at the top).
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Photos
Please tag your photos and upload them to the British and Irish Mountains group on Flickr
The other photos have been geo-tagged as on or around the summit. For less busy mountains, it can be a little hit and miss.
20241220_153224
20-Dec-24 • coolmoodee0 • flickr
destination landscape wales countryside clouds cloudformation cloudporn 2024 december 54217449039
Crossing on the Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway
welshpoolandllanfairlightrailway welshool trallwng levelcrossing 54004105610
Sylfaen Surroundings
A view captured from the window a railway carriage as the train made its way towards Llanfair Caereinion. Note the cattle beyond the hedge and the dozens of rooks and or jackdaws in the nearest field.
welshpool llanfair light railway railroad pasture cattle 53847969238
From A Railway Carriage
The Earl is running bunker first around Cwm Curves, near Sylfaen. In the left distance are the buildings of Middle Sylfaen farm. The picture was taken from the from the front balcony of a former Zillertalbahn carriage (B27). This train was the 08:45 empty stock working from Llanfair Caereinion to Welshpool. The was children's themed event at Welshpool over the weekend and, apart from the guard, the only passengers were the second loco crew.
welshpool llanfair light railway railroad cwm curves earl sylfaen trees fields 53843122781
Watching the world go by on the Welshpool and Llanfair Railway 21 April 2024
21-Apr-24 • ian.dinmore • flickr
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Steam locomotive No. 822 'The Earl' hauls a GWR mixed train towards the the summit of Golfa bank on the Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway.
With a nice clean exhaust but using every ounce of its tractive effort, steam locomotive No. 822 'The Earl' built by Beyer Peacock at Gorton, Manchester during 1902 hauls the replica Pilkington coaches an open wagon and brake van up towards the summit of the 1 in 29 Golfa bank with the 13:15pm departure from Welshpool Raven Square, on the Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway, Cymry/Wales. © Anthony Haynes - All rights reserved, please do not use this image without my explicit permission.
20-Apr-24 • Chuffer Haynes • flickr
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Friday Engineers
Civil engineers train on the Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway on St David's Day, approaching Cwm Lane, halway between Llanfair and Welshpool. Friday 1.3.24. Courtesy of the Llanfair and Welshpool Light Railway web site: No. 7 Chattenden is six-coupled machine was built by E. E. Baguley at Burton-on-Trent in 1949 to the order of the Drewry Car Company and is now fitted with a Gardner engine developing 150 h.p. Originally it worked on the Admiralty’s Upnor and Lodge Hill Railway then later transferred to Broughton Moor, Cumbria. Capable of working passenger trains in an emergency, the locomotive is normally used for the heavier civil engineering works trains. The latest edition of the Phoenix Railway Photographic Journal has been published and you can read for free by copying and pasting this link into your browser: online.fliphtml5.com/lnylv/nqzm/
01-Mar-24 • Jim the Joker • flickr
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Approaching Milepost 3
Former Sierra Leone Government Railway No. 85, built by Hunslet in 1954, approaching Milepost 3 on the infamous Golfa Bank on the Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway
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Videos
A short walk up Moel Y Golfa near Welshpool to see the Romany monument.
Marilyn 13-14.
April 2023. A fairly strenuous hike to the monument at the top of Moel Y Golfa (403 metres) and Rodney's Pillar at the top of ...
Notes
- Data: Database of British and Irish Hills v18.2
- Maps: We use OS mapping for England, Scotland, Wales, and the Isle of Man. Sadly, Channel Islands, Northern (OSNI) and Southern Ireland (OSI) mapping isn't available online, so we use Openstreetmap.