The Narrow Gauge Railway Museum

Cambrai shortly after delivery to Tywyn from Leicestershire

The museum has also collected a number of wagons. The oldest of these is a 3ft. 6in. gauge plateway wagon from the Forest of Dean, from around 1800. The strangest is the Host Wagon constructed mainly from cast iron and carrying a small van and three slate wagons which ran on the 4ft gauge railway from the Dinorwic Quarries to Port Dinorwic. The museum also owns a number of restored Talyllyn Railway and Corris Railway wagons. These can be viewed in the yard at Tywyn Wharf, and occasionally working on special trains as the Corris Railway shares the unusual 2ft 3in gauge.
Some larger exhibits are housed at other locations. These include Cambrai, 0-6-0T metre gauge locomotive, built by L. Corpet and Cie. of Paris No. 493 of 1888; Nutty, a vertical boilered 4-wheeled geared Super Sentinel (No.SS7701) locomotive of 1927: Baguley 0-4-0 petrol locomotive No 774 of 1919; Penelope, a 2' gauge Motor Rail diesel locomotive MR8826/43 MOD No LOD758022; and Indian Runner, Ruston and Hornsby Type 33/40HP diesel locomotive No. 200744 of 1940, powered by 3VRO 201931.

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