Echoes of the years

RICHARD WILCOCK visits the Glasgow site with a proud past… and now a favourable future

The Ffestiniog Railway has accomplished much during its seven decades in preservation. Here is a timeline of its key milestones.

PART ONE

D3265 – Llangollen: Work has continued on the overhaul of the Class 08 based in North Wales, with a start made on looking at the valves and guides and also pressure testing of the block itself. Firstl

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

Standing amid the stalactites and stalagmites in a massive cave, we could only imagine what it must have been like for Tommy and Jeff Morgan, the brothers who discovered this spectacular system way ba