Minor accidents and derailments were not uncommon on the Ffestiniog Railway during its first few years of operation. First opened in the 1830s it’s principal purpose was to take slate from the ...

His boyhood love of trains led him to save the Ffestiniog Railway and the Flying Scotsman. ... In the early 1950s Mr Pegler paid £3,000 for the abandoned line.

AN historic steam loco, heading for the scrapheap and rescued by the Ffestiniog Railway (FR), will celebrate a half century of unbroken service on the scenic narrow gauge line this weekend.

The Ffestiniog Railway, which cuts through the countryside in Wales, is Europe's No.1 scenic train line. It tops a new ranking by Which? of Europe's '10 best scenic railways', generated from a ...

An historic steam railway engine is taking a ferry trip from Wales to Dublin to celebrate its 150th birthday. Princess belongs to the Ffestiniog Railway in Gwynedd and was built in 1863 to haul ...

The Princess worked the Ffestiniog rail line at Porthmadog after being built in London in 1863. Following a revamp this winter it is to make a return journey to go on show at Paddington station.

The railway was originally part of the branch line from Bala to Blaenau Ffestiniog Central. The line closed to all traffic in 1961 but the section between Blaenau and Trawsfynydd reopened in 1964 ...

The proposals, on the site north of Oberon Wood, have been lodged by the Ffestiniog Railway Company. They are an updated redesign of a previous application which had been approved 10 years ago but ...

THE life of the man who made the restoration of a narrow gauge railway possible will be held this weekend.