WALES: Tribute to rail man.TRIBUTES have been paid to an eminent railway author and historian who has died. James Ian Craig Ian David Craig (Born June 12 1935 in Yass, New South Wales) is an Australian former Test cricketer. He was the youngest player to represent the Australian cricket team and was appointed as Test captain at the age of just 22, making him the youngest ever captain of Australia. Boyd spent a lifetime researching and writing about the narrow gauge railways of North Wales North Wales (known in some archaic texts as Northgalis) is the northernmost unofficial region of Wales, bordered to the south by Mid Wales and to the east by England. . He lived in Herefordshire. He was 88. His first work, Narrow-Gauge Rails To Portmadoc, was published in 1949, a tribute to the Festiniog Railway which had just closed. Rail enthusiast John Keylock, secretary of the Welsh Highland Railway The Welsh Highland Railway (WHR) is a narrow gauge railway in Wales, which originally ran from Dinas near Caernarfon to Porthmadog, with a branch line to Bryngwyn and the slate quarries at Moel Tryfan. The line is in the process of restoration as a heritage railway. Heritage group, said: "Little could JICB have known this book would spark sufficient interest to help revive the Ffestiniog and the Welsh Highland. "His two-volume history of the Festiniog, published in 1956-9, is still the definitive work." |
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