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	Welsh Highland Railway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Welsh Highland Railway (WHR) is a narrow gauge heritage railway in Wales.
		The Welsh Highland Railway was formed in 1922 from the merger of two companies - the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railway and the Portmadoc, Beddgelert and South Snowdon Railway (successor to the Croesor Tramway).
		The Ffestiniog Railway's "Welsh Highland Railway (Caernarfon)" opened its first stretch of line on the abandoned standard gauge trackbed between Caernarfon and Dinas in 1997, and sections of the original narrow gauge route opened between Dinas and Waunfawr in 2000 and between Waunfawr and Rhyd Ddu in 2003.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Welsh_Highland_Railway (2529 words)

	Heritage railway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A heritage railway or a preserved railway is a term used, especially in Great Britain, for a railway which is run as a tourist attraction, is usually but not always run by volunteers, and seeks to re-create railway scenes of the past.
		Heritage railways are usually railway lines which were once run as commercial railways, but were later no longer needed or were closed down, and were taken over or re-opened by volunteers or for-profit organizations.
		Typically a heritage railway will use steam locomotives and old-fashioned rolling stock to create a "period atmosphere", although some are now concentrating on more recent "modern image" diesel and electric traction to re-create the post-steam railway era.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Heritage_railway (1124 words)

	Welsh Highland Railway
		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.
		There might be some confusion caused by the fact that there is a long-standing but separate Welsh Highland Railway who occupy Beddgelert Siding in Porthmadog, a former standard-gauge connection with the WHR.
		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)

	The Welsh Highland Railway (Porthmadog) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Experience a railway journey of yesteryear, when locos were driven by steam and fired by coal*; when railwaymen took a pride in their job and took the time of day to talk to you...
		The Welsh Highland Railway (Porthmadog) is a small, friendly railway where the train ride is just part of the experience.
		The Welsh Highland Railway Ltd. is an independent, democratic company and heritage charity, dedicated to recreating the original WHR in the style of the 1920s and 30s.
	www.whr.co.uk /WHR-Ltd (527 words)

	Remnants of Old Railways in Gwynedd (Wales)
		At the Bangor end both railways are used a part of the Lon Ogwen cycle track.
		Fascinating environs for the Llanberis lake railway, on the trackbed of the Padarn railway, and directly adjacent to the old slate workings.
		Looking North from the WHR station at Caernarfon, showing the castle in the background and the old standard-gauge railway in the foreground, turning away to the right where it went thru a tunnel underneath the town's main square.
	members.tripod.com /~BDaugherty/railways/gwynedd.html (502 words)

	Virtual Vault - Railway Records
		A wider range of photographs (both historical and modern) relating to the Highland Railway can be found in the North By Northwest exhbition.
		From the 1860s until the 1960s railway timetables (and published railway guides were elaborate volumes, with handy maps, illustrations, adverts for hotels and tours and other useful information.
		Railway company records often contain samples of tickets and other ephemera, and many more such items are collected by private enthusiasts and museums.
	www.scan.org.uk /researchrtools/railway.htm (258 words)

	Highland Railway 2-2-2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Allan was consultant to the Inverness and Nairn Railway; but while his little 2-2-2s were ideal for the level run along the shores of the Moray Firth they were certainly not suitable for the line across the Grampians which attained an altitude of 1484 ft. above sea level in the Pass of Drumochter.
		Nevertheless no fewer than 54 locomotives of the Allan 6-wheeled type -- 24 of the 2-2-2 type, and 50 of the 2-4-0 -- were supplied to the Highland Railway between 1855 and 1871.
		She was originally named Sutherland, but took the name Cluny in 1874, exchanging names with No. 55, which was converted from a 2-2-2 to a 2-4-0 at that time.
	www.victorianweb.org /technology/railways/l3.html (271 words)

	The Colonel Stephens Museum - The Welsh Highland Railway
		This railway was the late flowering of ambitions for an extensive network planned by the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways in the heyday of the narrow gauge in the 1870s.
		Although Stephens influenced its equipment the Welsh Highland struggled all its life with insufficient resources and little goods traffic and closed in 1936, after which it was dismantled.
		A long held dream of enthusiasts to rebuild the line finally began to be realised in the 1990's, and with vigorous efforts a new, narrow gauge railway is progressively coming into being.
	www.hfstephens-museum.org.uk /pages/his_railways/welsh.htm (218 words)

	Signal Boxes of the Highland Railway
		The Highland Railway originally possessed a very basic signalling system, but in 1890 a massive programme of installations took place to achieve the Regulation of Railways Act requirement for interlocking.
		All early work on the Highland Railway was carried out by McKenzie and Holland, and boxes were built to their post-1875 design.
		The Highland became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923.
	www.signalbox.org /gallery/high.htm (516 words)

	51L: The finely detailed railway model. A brief background to the Highland Railway
		Because of a shortage of funds the railway was unable to reach its final destination, the highland capital Inverness.
		The traffic of the Highland Railway was seasonal in nature being dependent on agriculture and tourists particularly during the shooting season.
		Indeed it was the Highland railway which opened up the North of Scotland to tourists.
	home.freeuk.net /matthew.heald/infohr.htm (565 words)

	Welsh Highland Railway
		The forerunner of the WHR was the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways, Railways because it was intended to criss-cross Snowdonia and beyond with a network of lines similar in concept to the Ffestiniog Railway.
		The WHR arose phoenix-like from the ashes of the NWNGR.
		The modules present a variety of scenes from the Welsh Highland Railway and its predecessor the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways.
	users.eggconnect.net /canda.stell/WHR.html (718 words)

	The Mallaig Railway (Mallaig Heritage Centre)
		The Fort William-Mallaig railway was one of the last major rail building projects in the British Isles.
		The original terminus of the West Highland Railway was at Fort William, reached in 1894, but its promoters rapidly realised that although they had reached the West Coast they were still far from the fishing grounds of the Minch.
		The railway took 4 years to build, and was one of the first major constructions in the world to use mass concrete.
	www.mallaigheritage.org.uk /exhibit/rail1.htm (454 words)

	The Welsh Highland Railway (Caernarfon)
		This ambitious 2' gauge railway is destined to be the longest narrow gauge railway in the country once the restoration is complete.
		Although they lack the luxury of lottery funding they too are restoring the railway from the other end and there is hope for rapid progress towards a meeting of the two projects and reopening of the entire line.
		The history and origins of the railway are covered on a seperate page, this is because I now have a WHR page for each of the two ends of the railway, I look forward to the day they become one!
	www.narrow-gauge-pleasure.co.uk /rlywhr2.html (576 words)

	The Welsh Highland Railway (Porthmadog)
		The earliest and perhaps the most famous is the Ffestiniog Railway's Harbour Station but Porthmadog also has a Railtrack station linking it to the national rail network and, just across the road, the Welsh Highland Railway's new station.
		The Welsh Highland is very much a railway in process of restoration, currently under a mile separates the railways headquarters from its more remote terminus at Pen y Mount farm but the rail journey, normally behind historic steam haulage, is well worthwhile.
		Although the Welsh Highland Railway is quite short it was once amongst the longest narrow gauge railways in the country and many are striving to extend it back into its former haunts.
	www.narrow-gauge-pleasure.co.uk /rlywhr1.html (301 words)

	Ffestiniog Railway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		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.
		The track was lifted piecemeal until, in 1954, a group of enthusiasts, buoyed by the initiative shown by pioneers of the railway preservation movement on the Talyllyn Railway, stepped in to rebuild the line.
		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.
	members.aol.com /WalesRails/fest.htm (1536 words)

	Links to other sites - Light Railway Research Society of Australia
		Australian Railway Historical Society, ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas., WA, Vic.
		Germany - The Poehlwassertalbahn - 750 mm gauge railway
		Sweden - Ohsabanan - narrow gauge preserved forestry railway
	www.lrrsa.org.au /LRR_LINK.htm (281 words)

	HMRS: Highland Railway Liveries : Dathan na Gaidhealtachd
		The Highland Railway has always held a particular fascination for students and railway historians on both sides of the border: a fascination which is often quite independent of any other specific interests or allegiances which the reader may have.
		The explanation no doubt lies partly in the fascinating geography and history of the railways north of Perth but must also reflect the distinctively different 'Highland' way of doing things.
		It is this 'distinctively different' nature of the Highland Railway which forms the focus of this book wherein Howard Geddes and Eddie Bellass have drawn together the many disparate strands of the story of Highland Liveries, mostly during the independent pre- 1923 phase but with valuable supplementary data for the subsequent period too.
	www.hmrs.org.uk /books/bookdetails.php?bookid=1006 (276 words)

	The Welsh Highland Railway Order 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		(2) The railway shall be constructed to a nominal gauge of 600 millimetres.
		A railway in the county of Gwynedd, commencing at the termination of Work No. 1f and extending for about 19 kilometres and terminating at Porthmadog at, and including, Snowdon Street, constructed substantially on the formation of the former railway.
		This Order authorises The Festiniog Railway Company to construct works and compulsorily to acquire land for the purpose of rebuilding the Welsh Highland Railway from Dinas to Porthmadog in the County of Gwynedd.
	www.bangor.ac.uk /ml/whr/order19992129.htm (9337 words)

	Welsh Highland Rly. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This exciting project is restoring the old railway line that once provided a link between the towns of Caernarfon and Porthmadog.
		For a brief history of the Welsh Highland Railway, see the WHR History page, based on text prepared by the Heritage Group.
		Get directions to the Welsh Highland Railway's Station in Caernarfon by public transport and car with Transport Direct.
	www.festrail.co.uk /whr.htm (386 words)

	Porthmadog Narrow Gauge Railway - Welsh Highland Railway :: Stay in Wales
		Come to the Welsh Highland Railway in Porthmadog and experience a narrow-gauge railway restoration project first hand.
		Our friendly staff, who are all volunteers, are committed to restoring the Welsh Highland Railway which, in 1922, was the longest narrow-gauge railway in Wales.
		Our staff will be happy to tell you all about the Welsh Highland Railway as it was in 1922 and how it is now.
	www.stayinwales.co.uk /detail.cfm?idnum=642 (202 words)

	Clisham Guest House, Lochcarron, Wester Ross, Scottish Highlands
		For first-class B and B accommodation in the Scottish Highlands.
		The railway line between Strathcarron and Kyle of Lochalsh provides one of the most spectacular railway journeys in the British Isles.
		Stromeferry was originally the terminus of the railway, but an extension of the line to Kyle was opened in 1897 to link up with a ferry crossing to Skye from Kyle to Kyleakin.
	www.clishamguesthouse.co.uk /railway.htm (255 words)

	UK Narrow Gauge Railway Webring
		This webring is for Narrow Gauge Steam Railways in the United Kingdom.
		Narrow Gauge railways in Ireland are welcome to submit their sites and they may be allowed to join.
		Hidden away in a small Yorkshire garden is The Cobbybrook Light Railway, built to a scale of 1:19 (or thereabouts) and running on ramshackle 32mm gauge track...
	o.webring.com /hub?ring=uknrail (874 words)

	The Welsh Highland Railway Project
		This is where you can find out all about the project led by the Ffestiniog Railway to rebuild and operate the Welsh Highland Railway, a neighbouring line running through the mountains of Wales which closed in the 1930s.
		See also the excellent Welsh Highland Railway (Porthmadog) site, for history of the original WHR, the operations of the WHR Ltd at its Porthmadog site, and news about the extension of the railway north from Porthmadog.
		This site is endorsed by the Ffestiniog Railway as the official site of the WHR Project; however while every effort is made to ensure accuracy, materials not indicated as FR copyright should not be treated as official pronouncements by the FR.
	www.bangor.ac.uk /ml/whr (502 words)

	Welsh Highland Railway (Porthmadog) from WalesRails railways in Wales (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Welsh Highland Railway (Porthmadog) from WalesRails railways in Wales
		Although the present-day journey is a short one, ultimately the WHR is part of the ambitious scheme to reopen the Welsh Highland Railway through the spectacular scenery of Snowdonia, from Caernarfon to Porthmadog, a project being undertaken in conjunction with the Ffestiniog Railway.
		The railway is about 100 metres from Porthmadog station on the Cambrian coast line from Shrewsbury to Pwllheli, operated by Arriva Trains Wales.
	members.aol.com /walesRails/whr.htm (761 words)

	eBay - highland railway, Transportation, Publications Supplies items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		JOHN THOMAS The West Highland Railway PB vgc Scotland
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	search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=highland+railway&... (252 words)

	QUEEN OF SCOTS - Exclusive travel aboard the most luxurious private Train there is
		All of these elegant carriages date back to Victorian and Edwardian times, the golden age of railway travel in Britain, and are the oldest carriages running on Britain's national railway system.
		The Railways of Britain A brief history of the nation's railways, with special attention given to the matters concerning The Queen of Scots luxury touring Train.
		Where we are furnished with a general description of the luxury railway carriages which form The Queen Of Scots, and a hint of their history.
	www.queenofscots.co.uk (522 words)

	Welsh Highland Railway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		As the railway is graded at 1 in 40 through the station, modern regulations prohibit these shunting manoeuvres, so trains from Porthmadog will probably continue to Rhyd Ddu to terminate instead.
		The Welsh Highland Railway Ltd., The Welsh Highland Railway Society, and The Welsh Highland Railway Heritage Group are jointly pleased to announce the launch of an Association of all three bodies.
		In a statement the chairmen of the three founding organisations said: “We believe that it is vital at this critical time to promote the interests of the two Welsh Highland Railways and their allied heritage by focussing attention on the requirements of the railways, including their volunteer members, through the combined efforts of an Association”.
	www.isengard.co.uk (11897 words)

	Welsh Highland Railway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Take a trip back in time on the Welsh Highland Railway in Porthmadog, North Wales.
		Find out the train running times for the Welsh Highland Railway in Caernarfon.
		Learn more about the history of the Welsh Highland Railway, and enjoy a description of the railway route through the mountains.
	www.whr.co.uk (201 words)

	A Brief History of the Highland Railway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		After some discussion, the Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway (IandAJ) was promoted to build the line from Nairn to Keith where it met the GNSR extension from Huntly.
		Thus was born the Inverness and Perth Junction Railway (IandPJR) which ran from Forres via Grantown, Kingussie and Drumochter summit to Dunkeld where it met with end on with the
		The Highland Railway was well known for its locomotives.
	www.twocapitals.co.uk /HRSoc/WEBPAGES/history.htm (722 words)

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