Steam power is to return to the old Cambrian railway line in North Shropshire for the first time in more than forty years.
The Whitchurch-Oswestry-Welshpool section of the line has been closed to passenger traffic since 1965.
This summer a small section of the track at Llynclys near Oswestry will be working again.
The Cambrian Railways Trust hopes to start running trains from Good Friday, 21 March 2008.
New locomotive
Ken Ryder, the Trust chairman, said he had bought a saddle tank locomotive built it 1919.
Named Isobel, it has been working on the Swindon and Cricklade Railway for the past two years and has seven years left on its boiler certificate.
The Trust has long term plans to develop a tourist railway from Gobowen to Llanymynech.
Isobel will operate for 35 days during the summer along with a diesel unit which already runs from the new station at Llynclys.
The Cambrian Railways Society is working in co-operation with the Trust on a quarry line running west from Llynclys.
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