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The Ffestiniog Railway has accomplished much during its seven decades in preservation. Here is a timeline of its key milestones.
Ffestiniog equals slate, right? Maybe not, as we find out from a dedicated group that are working hard to ensure that an almost forgotten facet of this famous line’s rolling stock history is not forgotten.
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.
The yard of the coaching inn is lit by the moon. The mud-splattered stagecoach creaks as passengers climb from the roof and out of the stale interior. The horses are unharnessed and stabled; the passe
The Railway Station , 1862, oil on canvas, ...
Long-serving Ffestiniog Railway volunteer and current FR Magazine editor JOHN DOBSON recalls his early encounters with the railway back in the 1950s.
