Bala and Festiniog Railway information

The Bala and Festiniog Railway was a 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm), standard gauge, railway backed by the Great Western Railway (GWR) in north-west Wales. It...

The railway was purchased by the Bala and Festiniog Railway in 1883 and converted to 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge to extend the Bala Ffestiniog...

The Festiniog Railway Company, which owns the railway, is the oldest surviving railway company in the world. It also owns the Welsh Highland Railway, which...

Passenger services to Bala and on the Ruabon-Barmouth line ceased in January 1965; the service beyond Bala to Blaenau Festiniog having been withdrawn...

1882 the standard gauge Bala and Festiniog Railway reached Llan Ffestiniog from the south, enabling a passenger from (say) Bala to Duffws to transfer from...

Festiniog railway station served the village of Llan Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, Wales. This station was one of many 19th century institutions in Wales to be...

On 10 September 1883, the Bala and Festiniog Railway (B&FR) and the Festiniog Railway (FR) opened what would be known as an interchange station in Blaenau...

(1,435 mm) standard gauge Bala and Festiniog Railway (a proxy for the GWR) obtained an Act authorising it to build from Bala Junction to Blaenau Ffestiniog...

railway viaduct which crosses the Afon Prysor in thinly populated uplands east of Trawsfynydd, Gwynedd, Wales. It was built by the Bala and Festiniog...

Gwynedd, Wales. In 1882 the Bala and Ffestiniog Railway opened the line from Bala Junction to a temporary terminus at Festiniog, Trawsfynydd was one of the...

the line from Bala Junction to a temporary terminus at Festiniog, Frongoch was one of the stations opened with the line. At Festiniog passengers had...

existing lines and complete the link between Rhyd Ddu and Croesor Junction, thus creating a railway that ran from Dinas to join the Festiniog Railway at Porthmadog...

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route. On the line as a whole only Bala, Festiniog and Trawsfynydd had two platforms and only Bala, Trawsfynydd and the goods yard at Tan-y-Manod in Blaenau...

gauge Festiniog and Blaenau Railway which had run along the same route since 1868. Teigl Halt was one of the 198 opened by the Great Western Railway (GWR)...

Blaenau Festiniog Junction railway station (also known as Stesion Fain railway station) was the Festiniog Railway (FR)'s third of eventually five passenger...

Station on the Bala And Festiniog section will be called "Blaenau Festiniog". From 1883 until 1930 there were therefore three, four or five railway passenger...

(May 1971). Brewer, John (ed.). "Bala to Blaenau Festiniog". Model Railway News. 47 (557). Hemel Hempstead: Model and Allied Publications Ltd. Mitchell...

(603 mm) narrow gauge Festiniog and Blaenau Railway (F&BR); it opened with the line on 30 May 1868. The F&BR ran the three and a half route miles northwards...

Gwynedd, Wales. In 1882 the Bala and Ffestiniog Railway opened the line from Bala Junction to a temporary terminus at Festiniog, Trawsfynydd was one of the...

Arenig railway station stood beneath Arenig Fawr on the Great Western Railway's Bala Ffestiniog Line in Gwynedd, Wales. It served this thinly populated...

Bala and Ffestiniog Railway opened the line from Bala Junction to a temporary terminus at Festiniog, Trawsfynydd was one of the stations opened with the...

The Festiniog Railway served a cluster of quarries around the town of Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales. Most of these were slate quarries, although granite quarries...

opened in 1882 by the Bala and Festiniog Railway The company and line were subsequently taken over by the Great Western Railway (GWR) which went on to...