Bubble Car

Since 2018, the Tanat Valley Light Railway at Nant Mawr has been home to the Richard Morris collection of, often eccentric, narrow gauge motive power. Richard Morris began collecting narrow gauge equipment in 1963 and, from 1978 to 1997, his collection was on display at the Gloddfa Ganol Mountain Centre in Oakley Quarry above Blaenau Ffestiniog. A unique item in the collection is a 1957 BMW Isetta bubble car on narrow gauge wheels and bogie, in a 4-2-0 wheel arrangement. Known as Rail Taxi, the bubble car was converted in 1967 and still has the remains of the sign on the front that once read Special.