I also forgot to mention, in an interesting twist of fate, just like in "Railway with a Heart of Gold", I had to shoo a mother sheep and her lamb off of the tracks somewhere between Dolgoch and Abergynolwyn. Only difference was I had to do it twice. On the way up, I just opened the cylinder cocks to make lots of noise and blew the whistle.
On the way down, all I could do (since we weren't using the throttle) was sound the whistle. The mother got off quickly but the lamb was persistent. I was slowly working the air brake, but when there was only four feet left between the buffers and that lamb, I dumped the air and basically sent the train into emergency. After a quick check with the Guard(s), who were leaning out of the van to see what was going on, I got the Right Away and back down the valley we went.
