Stephen Ford

A short descriptive booklet assembled from previously published material to accompany the visit to the Welshpool & Llanfair of the Zillertalbahn 0-6-2T No.2. It gives brief details of the Zillertalbahn and No.2 (one of the iconic Class U locomotives found across the Austro-Hungarian narrow gauge network before World War I), and then continues to tell the story of the Welshpool & Llanfair's 'Austrian train', comprised mainly of four-wheeled balcony coaches donated to the Welsh line by the Zillertal in 1968. Finally, it details the story of the Welshpool's resident Austrian locomotive, No.10 'Sir Drefaldwyn'.… (more)