Aberystwyth Ceredigion Wales United Kingdom - A steam locomotive which once regularly ran from Aberystwyth to Devil's Bridge will return to West Wales later this month for the first time in 92 years.
 
Welsh Highland Railways' Number 4 "Palmerston" is the oldest remaining engine to have worked the Rheidol Railway and the only remaining engine to have worked the line during the Great War.
 
The engine was loaned from the Ffestiniog railway periodically from 1912 to 1922 to cater for additional traffic generated by the opening of a large Territorial Army camp at Lovesgrove, near Capel Bangor.
 
It was later used to assist with the vast increase of timber traffic over the line, the timber being used as pit props and duck boards to support the war effort.
 
The loco will head the 12:15 and 15:45 services on Rheidol Railway on the weekends of 20 and 27 Sep 2017, marking the 25th Anniversary of British Rail privatization.
 
Vale of Rheidol general manager Llyr ap Iolo said, "We're delighted to welcome this historic loco back. It's a great example of how Welsh narrow gauge railways can work together and we expect there will be a big demand to ride her."
 
Sion Morgan.