The Ffestiniog Railway is offering local residents a 50% discount on standard and first class train services this May. The ...

How far is six million miles? A sixth of the way to Mars, to the Moon and back three times, around 250 circuits of the equator, or, to put it another way… an awfully long way. That is roughly how far ...

Two narrow gauge steam locomotives are celebrating their 125th birthday this year and the Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railways are throwing a party. Linda and Blanche were built in 1893 by the ...

An historic narrow gauge railway will use lottery cash to teach people heritage skills to maintain the tracks and rolling stock. The Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways, which runs tourist services ...

Railway manager who brought the abandoned Ffestiniog Railway back to life in the 1950s The railwayman Allan Garraway, who has died aged 88, led the restoration of the Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland ...

An appeal has been launched to save a remote cottage on a train line which was immortalised in the much-loved children's television programme Ivor the Engine. Coed y Bleiddiau was built in the ...

There's something ffunny going on in North Wales this weekend. Narrow gauge Ffestiniog Railway is holding a Quirks And Curiosities event over the bank holiday which features a collection of unusual ...

Landmark Trust and Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland railway trust plan to rescue Coed y Bleiddiau, once home to the railway supervisor An isolated, derelict cottage, perched on a ledge of Welsh ...

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