The Festiniog and Blaenau Railway was a narrow gauge railway built in 1868 to connect the town of Blaenau Ffestiniog in Wales with the slate quarries around Tanymanod and the village of Llan Ffestinio
Wooden viaduct on the Festiniog and Blaenau Railway near Tan-y-Manod, c. 1875
0-4-2ST locomotive No.2
There were more than a thousand British narrow-gauge railways ranging from large, historically significant common carriers to small, short-lived industrial railways. Many notable events in British rai
Festiniog and Blaenau Railway
…then dispatched to Swindon in August 1884 for scrapping and in due course the GWR paid the Bala and Festiniog Railway the scrap value of £178 19s 8d. British narrow gauge railways Baughan, Peter E. (1991). A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: North and Mid Wales. Regional railway history series (2nd ed.). Nairn…
Steam locomotive Dolgoch in its first year of preservation service on the Talyllyn Railway, the first volunteer-run heritage railway in the world
The Surrey Iron Railway, one of the earliest public railways
Locomotive Charles of the Penrhyn Quarry Railway, seen preserved at Penrhyn Castle Museum
The Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway opened in 1903. It included this section running through Welshpool town