Ffestiniog plans 200-wheel cavalcade for dual celebration

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

What better way of celebrating both the Ffestiniog Railway’s 70th anniversary and ‘Railway 200’ than with an epic four-day gala culminating in a spectacular cavalcade? THOMAS BRIGHT finds out how the FR pulled off one of the events of the year.

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On Saturday, May 17, Talisman Railwayana Auctions held its latest live auction. Steam nameplates: Trinidad (45634), £4800; Repulse with worksplate (45725), £4500; Persimmon (60050), £4400; and Pyrland

The Greatest Gathering at Derby on August 1-3 brings together a host of exhibits from the railway over the last 200 years, but there are more than 100 modern traction locos and multiple units alone, a

Have you ever thought, ‘I dodged a bullet there’? Well, for anyone who chose not to travel on the Branch Line Society’s ‘Tytherington Quarrier’ charter of July 12, you most certainly did. This was one