Video and gallery: All aboard the Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway Steam Gala weekend

Train enthusiasts, young and old, attended the event at Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway.

It was mixed weather for the event, which was held over three days for the first time to meet demand.

The event kicked off on Friday and over the weekend a timetable operated freight and mixed passenger and goods trains.

Star attraction at the event was the Chevallier, a 0-6-2T steam locomotive built by Manning Wardle & Co, Leeds, in 1915.

Originally built for a Royal Navy railway in Kent it was later moved across to the Bowaters Paper Mill line in Sittingbourne.

When that company closed its line in 1969, the locomotive went to work on a new line running through the animal paddocks at Whipsnade Zoo. It was later sold to Bill Parker of the Flour Mill Workshop in the Forest of Dean, and Bill undertook a full overhaul.

The locomotive has twice before visited the Llanfair line to take part in the gala, in 1991 and 2010.

During the gala it hauled special freight and passenger workings between Llanfair Caereinion and Cyfronydd.

At Welshpool Raven Square a new display space has been created thanks to the efforts of members over the summer adding a concrete floor to the long carriage shed. Highlight of the displays here was the second 'Little Layouts' model exhibition organised by railway member Martin Rich.

The gala coincided with the separate-entry Garden Railway Show held on Saturday and yesterday at Llanfair Leisure Centre.

Charles Spencer, general manager of the railway, said: "It has gone very well. We had horrible weather on Saturday but despite that we still had lots of people. We had about 1,000 people on each day."