BALA Lake Railway (BLR) officials are hoping to raise the final £50,000 it requires to carry out additional work on its flood defences by the end of this month. The sum, the final amount needed of the £276,00 required by Natural Resources Wales, will help the railway to carry out the additional civil engineering works it needs to complete in order to enable the construction of the trackbed for its extension. Plans for the extension were first revealed in the Denbighshire Free Press in October 2019, when the BLR purchased a piece of land from Bala Rugby Club for an undisclosed fee. The existing route of the Railway runs for 4½ miles from Llanuwchllyn to Pen-y-Bont station. The additional project, worth an estimated £2.5m, will see a further 3/4 mile of railway laid to take the route across the River Dee and into Bala town itself.