Moel Tryfan (locomotive)

In 1903, Moel Tryfan underwent a major overhaul (with new boiler and firebox) at Davies and Metcalfe in Manchester, a year after Snowdon Ranger.

On 19 March J C Russell, the Receiver and Manager, applied to the Chancery Court for authority to spend £1,300 to purchase a new locomotive (Gowrie delivered later that year).

Snowdon Ranger was photographed at Dinas on 23 June 1909 and new piston rings were ordered for the engine in September 1910 and Moel Tryfan in February 1911.

The frames from Snowdon Ranger (which were renewed by Hunslet in 1908) are said to have been placed under the superstructure of Moel Tryfan, with the combined locomotive taking the latter name.

Of the two, Moel Tryfan was in the poorer condition, so when services were resumed as the WHR in July 1922, Russell performed the majority of the work.

[4] In order to operate the new railway efficiently, Moel Tryfan was sent to the Boston Lodge works of the neighbouring FfR for re-tubing in June 1923.

It re-entered service but with the bogie frame cracking in September 1923, it was overhauled between January and April 1924 and was cut down in order to enable it to work on the Ffestiniog Railway, whose loading gauge was considerably smaller than the WHR's.