YMMV / Railway Adventure

• Hilarious in Hindsight: Rolt comments that King's Station is oddly named because the Talyllyn never had received any royal visitors in its lifetime up to that point. In the years after the book would be published then-Prince Charles would visit the railroad twice riding the footplate of locomotives on both occasions.
  • By the time Charles made his royal visits to the line as well, the station had lost the name of King's Station in favor of Wharf Station instead!
  • Rolt often comments on abandoned narrow gauge lines such as the Ffestiniog Railway, the Welsh Highland Railway, the Corris Railway and Glyn Valley Tramway in past tense terms as all of them had closed by the time the book was published. Almost all of them would be re-opened or rebuilt (either partially or fully) over the coming years by the very rail preservation movement which had its roots on the Talyllyn. The partially rebuilt Corris is almost the Talyllyn's sister railway at this point due to how close it is, and the modern Talyllyn and Corris regularly send locomotives and rolling stock back and forth between them for special events.