My friend Tony Hills, who has died aged 78, was the founder of the narrow-gauge Brecon Mountain railway, a popular tourist attraction in the Brecon Beacons of south Wales.
A self-taught engineer, in the 1960s Tony had become an active volunteer on the Ffestiniog railway in the Snowdonia national park of north Wales, leading the restoration of three wagons and the construction of a brake van at his home near Birmingham. Told that he could not restore a disused locomotive as a further homework project, he decided to set up his own railway.
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