 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Ffestiniog Railway is a 2 ft gauge line which runs from Porthmadog to Blaenau Ffestiniog in North Wales, a distance of nearly 14 miles. The railway was built in 1836 as a horse-worked line to carry slate. The first steam locomotives arrived in 1863 when the Ffestiniog became Britain’s first narrow gauge passenger railway. The line closed in 1946 and has re-opened in sections since 1955, finally reaching Blaenau in 1982 after building a new line to avoid a reservoir which flooded part of the old route. For more details I recommend the Ffestiniog website [see my links page], which has a very good section on the history of the line. |
||||||||
 |
||||||||
 |
||||||||