The special anniversary year is being marked with a series of events throughout 2015.
Photographic archives helped reproduce the original livery for the locomotives, No.1 Talyllyn and No.2 Dolgoch, before the results were unveiled online
The railway, running from the coast at Tywyn to Abergynolwyn and Nant Gwernol inland, was built to carry slate.
It was saved by volunteers in 1951, making it what they say is the world's first first railway saved from a private ownership and run by volunteers."
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-30719626
These aren't the only survivors from the 1860's:
LAPPA VALLEY RAILWAY St Newlyn East, Cornwall found on https://www.facebook.com/HeritageRailway?fref=nf
http://www.cornwallscottages.co.uk/cottages/railway-cottage-launceston-79522.htm#page=page-1
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