Uploaded September 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Wickham Trolley - Our first Electric Loco!
Join our General Manager, Paul Lewin and members of the FR team as they take a trip across the Cob in the railway’s Wickham Trolley.
The railway's Wickham Trolley, which arrived on the FR in 1962, has been given a new lease of life. Having been used by the track gangs for several years, the Wickham was put into store at Glan y Pwll around 1973. Starting in the late 1990s, it has been restored in stages by volunteers, at different times and locations, returning to the FR in 2010. The latest work has seen it converted to run off batteries, rather than petrol as originally built. These batteries can, of course, be charged from the electricity created by the large solar panel array that has been installed on the roof of the new carriage shed.
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Troli ‘Wickham’ - Ein ‘Loco’ Electric gyntaf
Ymunwch â’n Rheolwr Cyffredinol, Paul Lewin ac aelodau o dîm RhFf wrth iddynt fynd ar daith ar draws y Cob yn Nhroli ‘Wickham’ y rheilffordd.
Mae Troli ‘Wickham’ y rheilffordd, a gyrhaeddodd RhFf yn 1962, wedi cael bywyd newydd. Wedi cael ei ddefnyddio gan gangiau’r trac ers sawl blwyddyn, rhoddwyd y Wickham yn ystorfa yng Nglan y Pwll tua 1973. Gan ddechrau ar ddiwedd y 1990au, mae wedi’i hadfer fesul cam gan wirfoddolwyr, ar wahanol adegau a lleoliadau, yn dychwelyd i RhFf yn 2010. Mae'r gwaith diweddaraf wedi ei weld yn cael ei drawsnewid i fatris dŵr ffo, yn hytrach na phetrol fel yr adeiladwyd yn wreiddiol. Wrth gwrs, gellir wefru'r batris hyn o'r trydan a grewyd gan yr paneli solar mawr sydd wedi'i gosod ar do'r sied gerbydau newydd.
Wickham Trolley - Our first Electric Loco!
Join our General Manager, Paul Lewin and members of the FR team as they take a trip across the Cob in the railway’s Wickham Trolley.
The railway's Wickham Trolley, which arrived on the FR in 1962, has been given a new lease of life. Having been used by the track gangs for several years, the Wickham was put into store at Glan y Pwll around 1973. Starting in the late 1990s, it has been restored in stages by volunteers, at different times and locations, returning to the FR in 2010. The latest work has seen it converted to run off batteries, rather than petrol as originally built. These batteries can, of course, be charged from the electricity created by the large solar panel array that has been installed on the roof of the new carriage shed.
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Troli ‘Wickham’ - Ein ‘Loco’ Electric gyntaf
Ymunwch â’n Rheolwr Cyffredinol, Paul Lewin ac aelodau o dîm RhFf wrth iddynt fynd ar daith ar draws y Cob yn Nhroli ‘Wickham’ y rheilffordd.
Mae Troli ‘Wickham’ y rheilffordd, a gyrhaeddodd RhFf yn 1962, wedi cael bywyd newydd. Wedi cael ei ddefnyddio gan gangiau’r trac ers sawl blwyddyn, rhoddwyd y Wickham yn ystorfa yng Nglan y Pwll tua 1973. Gan ddechrau ar ddiwedd y 1990au, mae wedi’i hadfer fesul cam gan wirfoddolwyr, ar wahanol adegau a lleoliadau, yn dychwelyd i RhFf yn 2010. Mae'r gwaith diweddaraf wedi ei weld yn cael ei drawsnewid i fatris dŵr ffo, yn hytrach na phetrol fel yr adeiladwyd yn wreiddiol. Wrth gwrs, gellir wefru'r batris hyn o'r trydan a grewyd gan yr paneli solar mawr sydd wedi'i gosod ar do'r sied gerbydau newydd.
