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	Ffestiniog Railway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The railway company is properly known as the "Festiniog Railway Company", and this contemporary anglicised spelling is still the official title of the company as defined by the Act (2 William IV cap.xlviii) that created the railway.
		J.G.V.Mitchell and A.G.W.Garraway; Ffestiniog in the Fifties, 1997
		J.G.V.Mitchell and A.G.W.Garraway; Ffestiniog in the Sixties, 1997
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ffestiniog_Railway (3351 words)

	Blaenau Ffestiniog - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The hills around Blaenau Ffestiniog form the watershed between the River Conwy flowing to the north and the River Dwyryd flowing to the west.
		Today Blaenau Ffestiniog railway station on the site of the former Great Western station serves as a combined station for the Ffestiniog Railway and the Conwy Valley line, their previous stations being no longer in use.
		Blaenau Ffestiniog is on the A470 road which runs from the north to the south of Wales.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blaenau_Ffestiniog (330 words)

	Blaenau Ffestiniog railway station - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Blaenau Ffestiniog railway station serves the slate mining town of Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales, and is the passenger terminus of the Conwy Valley Line from Llandudno Junction.
		The station is a joint station with the narrow gauge Ffestiniog Railway, which operates primarily tourist passenger services to Porthmadog throughout most of the year.
		It was the London and North Western Railway Conwy Valley Line from Llandudno Junction, which established its slate yards at the northern end of Blaenau Ffestiniog and built its passenger station near Glanypwll and across the road from the Ffestiniog Railway on which an interchange station was built in 1881.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blaenau_Ffestiniog_railway_station (891 words)

	Ffestiniog Railway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Ffestiniog solved the problem in their own way by introducing articulated locomotives, which are very much a feature of the railway today.
		Certainly there were new railways coming into being during the 1860s in Britain, a situation which maybe could be claimed to have been inspired by the Ffestiniog.
		However, in the process, these new railways tended to avoid the sharp curves etc. of the Ffestiniog, in order to be able to construct unarticulated steam locomotives - some of these locomotives being of an impressive size.
	members.tripod.com /~BDaugherty/railways/ngfest.html (485 words)

	Ffestiniog Five: Deviation
		The work would entail creating a large cache reservoir in the basin behind the ridge, flooding the Moelwyn tunnel and nearly a mile of Ffestiniog right-of-way in the process.
		Protests by the revitalized railway went unheeded; the land was seized in 1956, and the reservoir filled and the line submerged by 1963.
		When the dust settled, the volunteers had hewn from the unforgiving mountains over two full miles of new railway grade, including a complete spiral at Dduallt to gain the altitude necessary to vault the ridge, and an entirely new 861-foot tunnel under the summit.
	www.steamsafari.com /wales/ffest/ffest5.htm (786 words)

	Ffestiniog Story
		From its zenith in the 1880s the Ffestiniog Railway declined, with the local slate industry, and finally closed in August 1946.
		The Festiniog Railway Company is, however, a statutory body with no powers to abandon the railway, which lay derelict for eight years until control of the company passed to its present enthusiastic owners.
		In that time, the railway and its army of volunteer helpers had to build 2 miles of new railway to bypass a reservoir, which included boring a 300-metre tunnel, besides restoring and operating the remainder of the old line.
	www.ffestiniog.connectfree.co.uk /page2.html (526 words)

	Ffestiniog Railway
		Of 1ft 11½in gauge, the Ffestiniog Railway was opened as a horse-drawn tramway in 1836 to transport slate from the Blaenau Ffestiniog quarries to the harbour at Porthmadog, the horses hauling the empty wagons to the top of the line, then riding down on the 'Dandy' wagon at the rear of the train.
		Using the Ffestiniog Railway and its links to the national network, it is possible to complete a figure-of-eight circumnavigation of Wales by rail, duplicating only a short piece of track between Shrewsbury and Craven Arms on the Marches Line.
		Blaenau Ffestiniog is on the A470, the main trunk road between North and South Wales, and is served by buses from Llandudno and Dolgellau.
	members.aol.com /WalesRails/fest.htm (1536 words)

	VideoList
		Ffestiniog Railway (A Celebration of Forty Years): This video was shot in 1995, during the celebrations of forty years of preservation of the FR.
		Ffestiniog Locomotives: Includes all of the locomotives on the Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railways, as well as several visiting locomotives.
		Railways: The Vale of Rheidol Railway was opened in 1902 and has been in continuous operation ever since.
	www.gwtc.net /~mdecker/videolist.html (861 words)

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		THE FFESTINIOG RAILWAY ====================== A potted history of the famous Ffestiniog Railway in Wales, compiled by John Luxton (70374,30).
		This railway is now the only railway in the world which continues to operate (and build) Fairlie type articulated steam locomotives.
		The railway then was left to nature, except for the section in Blaenau which was leased to the quarry companies.
	www.trainnet.org /Libraries/Lib003/FR.TXT (1130 words)

	Locomotive - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An ALCO RS1 of the Southern Appalachia Railway Museum --Oak Ridge, TN.
		A locomotive (from Latin loco motivus) is a railway vehicle that provides the motive power for a train, and has no payload capacity of its own; its sole purpose is to move the train along the tracks.
		The first railway locomotives (19th century) were powered by steam, first by burning wood, later coke and coal or petroleum.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Locomotive (2417 words)

	Welsh Highland Railway
		This has a historical precedence in that, during the time of its original operation, the WHR was closely associated with the Ffestiniog, apparently to the great disadvantage of the latter.
		The northern terminus of the new railway is Caernarfon, from where it travels alongside the Lon Eifion cycle track for a couple of kilometers before joining the original WHR track at Dinas Junction, and thence via Beddgelert and the Aberglaslyn Pass to Porthmadog.
		The tunnel was used by the Nantlle Railway to enter Caernarfon along a different route (and was planned to be re-used by the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways for their proposed Caernarfon extension).
	members.tripod.com /~BDaugherty/railways/ngwhr.html (997 words)

	Ffestiniog One: Porthmadog Quay
		Yet today's journey would be different, for the Ffestiniog Railway is something truly special: it is, quite simply and incontrovertibly, the Queen of the Narrow-gauge.
		Soon Fairlie was promoting the little Welsh railway throughout the world as the new, cost-efficient railway of the future.
		What was needed was a railway connecting the two-- a mineral road to carry slate from the mines to the sea.
	www.steamsafari.com /wales/ffest/ffest1.htm (575 words)

	History of the Ffestiniog Railway, Wales
		Soon the railway was under strain again, and obtained permission for a double track in 1869.
		There was even a new railway, the Welsh Highland, built to link the former North Wales Narrow-Gauge Railway to the Ffestiniog, thus making a continuous narrow-gauge route from Dinas (near Caernarfon) to Blaenau Ffestiniog.
		The Railway is being continually developed to keep it as one of the most successful tourist attractions in North Wales, run by both volunteers and permanent staff to give enjoyment to thousands.
	www.wales-calling.com /attractions/railways.htm (729 words)

	GENUKI: Ffestiniog
		Sylvanus Evans (1833-1911), Ffestiniog : porthmon a masnachwr ceffylau.
		The social consequences of industrialisation in the Ffestiniog district, 1800-1914.
		Llechwedd Quarry, Blaenau Ffestiniog Records and Correspondence 1875-1916 "Llechwedd Slate Quarry, Blaenau Ffestiniog was owned by J. Greaves and Sons during the 19th and 20th centuries.
	www.genuki.org.uk /big/wal/MER/Ffestiniog (1429 words)

	The Festiniog Railway Heritage Group
		The Festiniog Railway is a major twenty-first century tourist attraction but was also a major world pioneer in the technological development of narrow-gauge railways.
		Its story goes back almost to the conception of railways and it has inherited a priceless collection of artefacts and records dating from its very earliest days which is probably second to none in the field of railway preservation.
		The Festiniog Railway was one of the earliest railways to be built and today is the oldest, unamalgamated, independent, railway company in the world.
	www.frheritage.org.uk (261 words)

	Blaenau Ffestiniog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Ffestiniog Railway had a branch to Llechwedd which passed under the standard gauge line here and accessed the quarry by an incline behind the building.
		Ffestiniog was on March 6th 1993 when 43043 and 073 arrived on a tour from
		Mr Fairlie was responsible for the introduction of the "double engines" on the Ffestiniog Railway, which are still in use today.
	www.penmorfa.com /Conwy/four.htm (772 words)

	Discover Volunteering
		It doesn't matter whether you have a day, a week, or a lifetime to devote to the Ffestiniog railway, we have jobs that will make you feel your visit is worthwhile.
		All of the tasks provide the opportunity to be part of the FFESTINIOG FAMILY, and give you the enjoyment of being part of a busy team running a railway in the very beautiful environment of North Wales.
		Many volunteers find they learn new and useful skills that are of benefit in the world away from the railway, and may even help with job applications, where potential employers look very favourably on volunteer work of the sort offered on the railway.
	www.ffestiniogvolunteer.org.uk /discover (502 words)

	Llan Ffestiniog and Cynfal Falls Nature Reserve
		My pictures were taken on a late autumn day when the travelling fairground came to town, and, although it was a bit nippy, when the setting sun shines on this westerly facing landscape the striking views certainly warm the heart.
		The Ffestiniog Railway (originally horse drawn) opened for freight traffic in 1836 and transported the slate from source at Blaenau Ffestiniog to harbour via a 21km journey through meadows, woodlands, lakes and waterfalls within what is now the Snowdonia National Park.
		Ffestiniog Power Station at nearby Tanygrisiau was the first pumped storage station built for the CEGB - an example of modern technology set against the dramatic backdrop of old slate quarries.
	www.walesdirectory.co.uk /Towns_in_Wales/Llan_Ffestiniog_Town.htm (543 words)

	Narrow Gauge Railway Resurrection
		This railway opened to the pubic in 1974 and is run with mainly volunteer staff.
		The railway remained derelict until 1941 when it was dismantled and all rolling stock disposed of (mainly for scrap).
		Passengers were carried from 1883 until 1931 (the railway having been acquired by the GWR in 1929) but slate was carried until 1948 when the railway was closed due to the bridge over the River Dovey being damaged by floods.
	www.cooke686.fsnet.co.uk /narrow.htm (1200 words)

	Traws to Bala (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Ffestiniog and Blaenau Railway (2 foot gauge) opened 29th May 1868, later converted to standard gauge as part of the Bala - Blaenau Ffestiniog line.
		The slate was still mainly despatched via the Ffestiniog Railway to Minffordd or by the LNWR line.
		On a remote railway branch like that one, operations were conducted very much in a 'family' manner, with no questions asked as long as the job got done.
	www.penmorfa.com /Conwy/six.htm (642 words)

	Ffestiniog Railway/Welsh Highland Railway
		The Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railways are pleased to announce that following extensive discussions the principle differences between the companies have been amicably settled.
		An immediate benefit of the accord was seen when the Welsh Highland track laying gang spontaneously offered to lay 1/4 mile of track at Blaenau Ffestiniog to house the Garratts purchased by the FR for use on the Welsh Highland line.
		It acknowledges that the Ffestiniog Railway is now taking the lead in attaining that objective.
	www.whr.co.uk /news/article.php?date=1996-07-01&name=joint (588 words)

	The Ffestiniog Railway - a ChuffingtonTours excursion
		The building of the reservoir flooded the line of the Ffestiniog Railway, so we are now on the new line known as the 'Deviation'.
		At Minffordd the Ffestiniog Railway crosses above the BR Cambrian Coast Line, so if you want to visit other parts of the west coast this is a good place to change trains.
		The railway was built to serve the busy slate wharves, which are now occupied by holiday accommodation.
	www.sinenomine.freeserve.co.uk /chuff/frtour.html (1323 words)

	Ffestiniog Railway
		Blaenau Ffestiniog station is shared with British Rail, and is 'functional' with a medium sized car park.
		We were pulled to Porthmadog by the double ended Fairlie "David Lloyd George" and back to Blaenau Ffestiniog by "Linda".
		I didn't think you were allowed to look around, but a nice man who helps run the railway has since emailed me and said it is open at certain times of the year.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /stuart.poore/Trains/Ffestiniog.htm (487 words)

	Ffestiniog Volunteer - Front Page
		The Ffestiniog Railway is the oldest independent railway company in the world and much of the work in running the railway is done by volunteers.
		This web site is written by volunteers for volunteers and may not represent the official views of the Ffestiniog Railway Company or the Ffestiniog Railway Society.
		The official Ffestiniog Railway Company web site can be found at www.festrail.co.uk.
	www.ffestiniogvolunteer.org.uk (252 words)

	Conwy Valley Branch
		From town, the Great Orme Tramway (left) is a funicular railway which ascends to the summit, where may be found some of the most spectacular views of the North Wales coastline, and the small church of St Tudno, from whom the town takes its name.
		Blaenau Ffestiniog (pictured left) is also the terminus of the Ffestiniog narrow-gauge railway, which offers a 13 mile trip through Snowdonia, linking with the national network's Cambrian Coast Line at Minffordd.
		The terminus of the Ffestiniog Railway is adjacent to the NWT station at Blaenau Ffestiniog.
	members.aol.com /Walesrails/blfest.htm (1104 words)

	Skarloey Railway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The mythology of the Skarloey Railway is based very directly on the Talyllyn's struggle for survival in the late 1940s and 50s - the original owner Sir Henry Haydn Jones is matched on Sodor by Sir Handel Brown, and Talyllyn manager Edward Thomas by Peter Sam, the Thin Controller.
		The MSR itself is a rich melange of references to the old 3' gauge Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway, Snailbeach District Railway and Col. Stevens' Empire in England, the Welsh Highland Railway, the Ffestiniog Railway, and the Corris Railway in Wales, and last but not least the Estrada de Ferro Madeira Mamore in Brazil.
		The Railway and the Narrow Gauge Museum at Wharf station are together a lasting centre for the Rev Wilbert's legacy.
	www.pegnsean.net /~railwayseries/skarloey.htm (1369 words)

	The Colonel Stephens Museum - The Ffestiniog Railway
		A bustling and busy narrow gauge slate-carrying railway between Portmadoc and Blaenau Ffestiniog that pioneered narrow gauge steam and passenger services in the 19th.
		Century and demonstrated the utility of such railways to the world.
		NEW TRACTION ON THE FESTINIOG AND WELSH HIGHLAND RAILWAYS
	www.hfstephens-museum.org.uk /pages/his_railways/ffestiniog.htm (159 words)

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