Here’s the picture of Tan-y-grisiau station on the FR between closure and revival. I particularly like the grass and the chickens on the line.

This is from More British Narrow Gauge Steam - A Second Pictorial Survey by M. J. Messenger, published by D. Bradford Barton in 1974. An essential purchase for the narrow gauge fan - lots of copies floating around Abebooks, although the first volume appears rather harder to obtain now (fortunately, I snapped one up some time ago).

What I particularly like about this scene is that, despite the general air of abandonment, you feel like the railway could be brought back into use with only a little clearing up. Were I to stumble across it, I’d be seized by the urge to grab the nearest platelayers trolley, braked wagon or Simplex and head on up the line to see what else is still intact. This indeed is pretty much what happened once the preservation society took ownership; read the accounts of some of the early exploration and salvage trips up towards Blaenau in John Winton’s The Little Wonder.