Penmaen

In the hills above Blaenau Ffestiniog lie the remains of RHOSYDD QUARRY . Once a hub of industry, now abandoned and left to decay, it’s a place that echoes with whispers of the past.

ABOVE: The 1990s were a colourful time with the last of the Trainload liveries, the shadow freight colour schemes and the new privatised company liveries. On January 23, 1996, Loadhaul 37517 leads Tra

2025 marks 200 years since the birth of the modern railway, which gave millions of city-weary walkers a way to escape to the country.

It will be 50 years this September since construction of the New Moelwyn Tunnel – a vital part of the Ffestiniog Railway’s Deviation project and extension to Blaenau Ffestiniog – got under way. This is the inside story... literally.

Locomotive sheds go back to the railways’ earliest days; thus many have never been seen in an illustration of some kind; we know only of their existence from company records and in many cases, luckily

Long-serving Ffestiniog Railway volunteer and current FR Magazine editor JOHN DOBSON recalls his early encounters with the railway back in the 1950s.