thank you. ive put up post under topics, shame about the quarry not active as a rail sorce (although is now at cooton hill loll). I used to live in a valley in penstrowed - between newtown and caersws but those 37's echoing the valley are a brilliant memory!

You still hear the 97's shooting past LE doing ERTMS training from time to time - I live a little further up the line between Caersws and Pontdolgoch.  How about doing Scafell Halt and traces of the old siding to the Penstrowed quarry

Slightly OT (as in wrong era) but just to say that growing up on Meole Estate I have vivid memories of hearing trains passing by on the Cambrian line or 'the Welshpool line' as me and my mate Anthony termed it.  We'd often cycle across to Meole Village and sit on the kissing gates at the crossing just to wait ages for a single train to pass and the loco was nearly always something we'd seen before!  Steam hauled back then, and double track there up to Hook a Gate.  Wishing you all the best with your plans.