Festiniog Events

From Festipedia, hosted by the FR Heritage Group

An adhoc list of some of the events on the railway. By no means complete and only lists events since 1986 Items marked *&* originally appeared on the Company website, and with the format change, now appear here with kind permission

(In chronological order)

1986, Easter Weekend - FR150
1988, 30th April to 2nd May - Steam 125
1990, 5th to 7th May - Steam Gala - for a brochure see the ephemera page
1993, 1st to 3rd May - Hunslet 100 Grand Steam Gala
1993, 19th/20th June - Training and Recruitment Weekend - A event targetted at on-train volunteers
1995, 6th to 8th May - All Our Yesterdays Steam Gala 95
1996, 17th/18th February - The Diesel Weekend
1997, 3rd to 5th May - A Festival of Steam Biennial Gala
1998, 2nd to 4th May - The Mini Gala
1999, 1st to 3rd May - Railffest 99 The Biennial Gala
2000, 15th/16th April - FE2K an event targeted at potential volunteers
2000, 28th December - A Quiet Time in the Snow
2002, Welsh Pony leaves Porthmadog, 12th March 2002, a pictorial report *&*
2002, 1st to 4th June - 20th Anniversary of the Opening to Blaenau / Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II
2002, Building Back to Blaenau, a pictorial report on the 20th Anniversary *&*
2004 - Railfest at the NRM featuring Prince, 15 and the CRV, also the Darjeeling loco
2005, 30th April to 3rd May - FR50