Photograph of a stone possibly taken in Merioneth
by John Piper
by John Piper
April 25, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Photograph of a stone possibly taken in Merioneth
by John Piper
by John Piper
Happy birthday to Ivor The Engine, the little Welsh railway engine from the Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company, who first appeared on our screens today in 1959. Toot-toot!
#onthisday #otd #wales
#onthisday #otd #wales
December 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Happy birthday to Ivor The Engine, the little Welsh railway engine from the Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company, who first appeared on our screens today in 1959. Toot-toot!
#onthisday #otd #wales
#onthisday #otd #wales
Happy birthday to Ivor The Engine!
The little Welsh railway engine from the Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company first chugged onto our screens today in 1959.
Toot-toot! 🚂
#onthisday #wales
The little Welsh railway engine from the Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company first chugged onto our screens today in 1959.
Toot-toot! 🚂
#onthisday #wales
December 28, 2024 at 8:07 AM
Happy birthday to Ivor The Engine!
The little Welsh railway engine from the Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company first chugged onto our screens today in 1959.
Toot-toot! 🚂
#onthisday #wales
The little Welsh railway engine from the Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company first chugged onto our screens today in 1959.
Toot-toot! 🚂
#onthisday #wales
Oliver Postgate, producer of many children’s programs, was born 101 years ago today.
His shows are, for people of a certain age, a portal to one’s childhood.
Here’s Ivor the Engine. The adventures of Ivor, his driver Jones the Steam, and the Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company Limited.
His shows are, for people of a certain age, a portal to one’s childhood.
Here’s Ivor the Engine. The adventures of Ivor, his driver Jones the Steam, and the Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company Limited.
Ivor the Engine E01 | The Railway
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April 12, 2026 at 12:47 PM
Oliver Postgate, producer of many children’s programs, was born 101 years ago today.
His shows are, for people of a certain age, a portal to one’s childhood.
Here’s Ivor the Engine. The adventures of Ivor, his driver Jones the Steam, and the Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company Limited.
His shows are, for people of a certain age, a portal to one’s childhood.
Here’s Ivor the Engine. The adventures of Ivor, his driver Jones the Steam, and the Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company Limited.
Map of Caernarfon, Merioneth and Anglesey - illustration to part I of Michael Drayton's 'Polyolbion, or a chorographicall Description of Great Britain' 1612-22, (British Museum)
March 27, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Map of Caernarfon, Merioneth and Anglesey - illustration to part I of Michael Drayton's 'Polyolbion, or a chorographicall Description of Great Britain' 1612-22, (British Museum)
August 31, 2026 at 6:51 PM
How would the locomotive of the Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company Limited help you set the microwave clock?
September 13, 2026 at 6:18 PM
How would the locomotive of the Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company Limited help you set the microwave clock?
On coming home from my week in #Meirionydd #Cymru, Mr Monkey has been seeking me out to give me lots of head butts, nuzzles and plenty of lap-work #caturday
#merioneth #wales
#merioneth #wales
September 5, 2026 at 5:20 PM
On coming home from my week in #Meirionydd #Cymru, Mr Monkey has been seeking me out to give me lots of head butts, nuzzles and plenty of lap-work #caturday
#merioneth #wales
#merioneth #wales
Couldn’t really be anything else.
August 18, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Couldn’t really be anything else.
Double Double Fairlies! With the finishing touches being applied to our 1960s-style ‘Merddin Emrys’ we took the chance to pose it next to to our un-butchered Bachmann ‘Earl of Merioneth’.
September 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Double Double Fairlies! With the finishing touches being applied to our 1960s-style ‘Merddin Emrys’ we took the chance to pose it next to to our un-butchered Bachmann ‘Earl of Merioneth’.
"It wasn't a very long railway or very important railway but it was called The Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company Limited and it was all there was"
Oliver Postgate's narration is burned in my brain.
Oliver Postgate's narration is burned in my brain.
August 6, 2026 at 9:41 PM
"It wasn't a very long railway or very important railway but it was called The Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company Limited and it was all there was"
Oliver Postgate's narration is burned in my brain.
Oliver Postgate's narration is burned in my brain.
Ah yes, the Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company. Excellent festive gift!
December 25, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Ah yes, the Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company. Excellent festive gift!
Parallel running alongside the back straight. Blanche and Linda lead the passenger coaches, whilst Earl of Merioneth and Merddin Emrys lead the goods train #modelrailway #modeltrains #narrowgauge #railwaymodeller ##workinprogress
August 2, 2026 at 7:12 PM
Parallel running alongside the back straight. Blanche and Linda lead the passenger coaches, whilst Earl of Merioneth and Merddin Emrys lead the goods train #modelrailway #modeltrains #narrowgauge #railwaymodeller ##workinprogress
The east window was inserted in 1892 in memory of Samuel Holland. The son of a Liverpool merchant, Holland was a quarry manager and railway investor, who later entered politics, representing Merioneth for 15 year in the House of Commons.
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August 18, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The east window was inserted in 1892 in memory of Samuel Holland. The son of a Liverpool merchant, Holland was a quarry manager and railway investor, who later entered politics, representing Merioneth for 15 year in the House of Commons.
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Stop scrolling, post two characters who bring you happiness.
January 14, 2026 at 9:32 AM
Stop scrolling, post two characters who bring you happiness.
More postcards from #Meirionydd #Cymru ##merioneth #wales Thankfully, the rain held back on my annual pilgrimage to Cwm #Ratgoed and most of the shrines were visited.
September 1, 2026 at 8:26 PM
More postcards from #Meirionydd #Cymru ##merioneth #wales Thankfully, the rain held back on my annual pilgrimage to Cwm #Ratgoed and most of the shrines were visited.
"Many are the tree tops of the far seen woods, many the tree trunks of deep timber...every tree in its pale green tunic, every plant in all its virtue, every bird with a laureate poet's mouth"
from 'The Mansion of the Woods' Edmund Price of Merioneth (1544-1623) 🎨 Welsh landscape
#BookWormSat
from 'The Mansion of the Woods' Edmund Price of Merioneth (1544-1623) 🎨 Welsh landscape
#BookWormSat
September 6, 2025 at 8:05 AM
"Many are the tree tops of the far seen woods, many the tree trunks of deep timber...every tree in its pale green tunic, every plant in all its virtue, every bird with a laureate poet's mouth"
from 'The Mansion of the Woods' Edmund Price of Merioneth (1544-1623) 🎨 Welsh landscape
#BookWormSat
from 'The Mansion of the Woods' Edmund Price of Merioneth (1544-1623) 🎨 Welsh landscape
#BookWormSat
6&7 Two versions of the same loco! Old Earl of Merioneth may make an appearance both as a sound fitted Bachmann model and our tow-along model of the loco at its nadir while it awaited cosmetic restoration and eventual display at the NRM in York.
January 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
6&7 Two versions of the same loco! Old Earl of Merioneth may make an appearance both as a sound fitted Bachmann model and our tow-along model of the loco at its nadir while it awaited cosmetic restoration and eventual display at the NRM in York.
Fantastic day at the Merioneth Show in Tywyn this year! Thank you to Liz Saville Roberts and Mabon ap Gwynfor who stopped by to show their support for our Erasmus petition campaign! You can sign our petition here 🏴🇪🇺👇
www.walesforeurope.org/this_is_eras...
www.walesforeurope.org/this_is_eras...
August 24, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Fantastic day at the Merioneth Show in Tywyn this year! Thank you to Liz Saville Roberts and Mabon ap Gwynfor who stopped by to show their support for our Erasmus petition campaign! You can sign our petition here 🏴🇪🇺👇
www.walesforeurope.org/this_is_eras...
www.walesforeurope.org/this_is_eras...
Need to correct a rare research fail on the Bachmann Fairlie bogies for our 1960s Merddin Emrys. These tallow cup lubricators had been replaced on the locos in preservation, but they still appear on the chassis for the green Earl of Merioneth model. Off they come!
July 19, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Need to correct a rare research fail on the Bachmann Fairlie bogies for our 1960s Merddin Emrys. These tallow cup lubricators had been replaced on the locos in preservation, but they still appear on the chassis for the green Earl of Merioneth model. Off they come!
Green Engines of Ffestiniog. Double Fairlie's Earl of Merioneth and Merddin Emrys on goods duties, and Mainline Hunslets Blanche and Linda on passenger services #modelrailway #modeltrains #009modelrailway #ffestiniograilway ##workinprogress
August 2, 2026 at 6:47 AM
Green Engines of Ffestiniog. Double Fairlie's Earl of Merioneth and Merddin Emrys on goods duties, and Mainline Hunslets Blanche and Linda on passenger services #modelrailway #modeltrains #009modelrailway #ffestiniograilway ##workinprogress
Today in 1959 we paid our first ever visit to The Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company Limited as we met Ivor the Engine and his friends.
A Smallfilms production shown on ITV.
A Smallfilms production shown on ITV.
December 28, 2024 at 8:08 PM
Today in 1959 we paid our first ever visit to The Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company Limited as we met Ivor the Engine and his friends.
A Smallfilms production shown on ITV.
A Smallfilms production shown on ITV.
Dressed my son up as 'Jones the Steam' of the Merioneth & Llantisilly Railway for world book day when he was 4 yrs old.
You know, Ivor's driver.
My son was wildly obsessed with Ivor the Engine, (and Jones the Steam)thanks to my curiosity about older children's television shows.
You know, Ivor's driver.
My son was wildly obsessed with Ivor the Engine, (and Jones the Steam)thanks to my curiosity about older children's television shows.
March 5, 2026 at 12:15 PM
Dressed my son up as 'Jones the Steam' of the Merioneth & Llantisilly Railway for world book day when he was 4 yrs old.
You know, Ivor's driver.
My son was wildly obsessed with Ivor the Engine, (and Jones the Steam)thanks to my curiosity about older children's television shows.
You know, Ivor's driver.
My son was wildly obsessed with Ivor the Engine, (and Jones the Steam)thanks to my curiosity about older children's television shows.
