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October 2025

Sat 4
4 October @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Heritage Group AGM

Tan-y-bwlch Tan-y-bwlch Station, United Kingdom
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Oct 4
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Heritage Group AGM

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Festiniog Railway Heritage Group

Festiniog Railway Heritage Group

The Festiniog Railway Heritage Group aims to research, conserve and recreate many aspects of the Festiniog Railway’s heritage. It supports many projects across the railway, and publishes research conducted by members in its quarterly journal.

Festiniog Railway Heritage Group

1 week ago

Festiniog Railway Heritage Group
What connects these three pictures – the famous Little Wonder on Creuau bank, some of the locos from the 200 wheels on the Cob at the Railways 200 - FR Platinum Jubilee Weekend, and the C2 locomotive? Well, although the FR was not the first to embrace narrow gauge steam traction, it was the Little Wonder demonstrations of 1870 that included the visit of Russian and US delegates that showed that narrow gauge railways were a credible and cheap way of building a railway that could handle huge amounts of traffic. What happened next was an explosion of narrow gauge railways across the world, their varied use including across the plains of Africa, the Southern Alps of New Zealand, in wars, and being commonly used in construction – including the Channel Tunnel, and as a case in point the Ffestiniog’s new battery shunters have come from building the Thames Tideway Tunnel. The 200 wheels on the Cob event was a staggering visual representation of the Ffestiniog’s legacy to the world with 25 locomotives lining up - not only the original FR locomotives, but their offspring – the 1960s interlopers – Linda, Blanche Britomart, and (some of) the Alco, the new build FR and L&B locomotives, the Quarry Hunslets, the Garratts, the Kalahari, Russell and Chaloner, and the Chinese C2. Following the event, there were some interesting comments on social media about the C2’s place in the line-up, and its place on the Ffestiniog. The latter can be explained simply in that it is a commercial arrangement by a group of FR volunteers that own it and are restoring it, but its place in the line-up is perhaps more significant. It is a reminder of how far Ffestiniog influence reached: that narrow gauge steam locomotives could be built for commercial freight use 10,000 miles away over 100 years after Little Wonder’s achievements, and so the C2 can stand honourably in the company of its brethren. How good is it that we can tell the story of narrow gauge steam, see the Ffestiniog legacy, and demonstrate our continuing heritage. Don’t you think? ... See MoreSee Less

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Festiniog Railway Heritage Group

1 month ago

Festiniog Railway Heritage Group
Don’t these waggons look magnificent? For many of us, with the Curly Roof Van and many other heritage lost artefacts having been recreated, the one large omission, along with perhaps the pig waggon (a story for another day), is a bogie ballast waggon. These two waggons, 88 and 105, as photographed in 1887, were very large goods waggons built by the railway to haul ballast, although like all other high sided goods stock they would have taken a variety of loads. With a tare weight of 4-5-0, they were around 4x the weight of a typical 4-wheeler, but offering 6x the capacity being rated for 12 tons of ballast, or 8 tons of coal or corn in sacks. They were both dismantled shortly after WW1. The number plates and some metalwork survived. This type of waggon has been on the Aspiration list of the Heritage Group for quite some time and the Wooden Waggon Federation, which was set up to restore and recreate the FR’s multitude of wooden waggons, are now at the point of their upskilling, that this type of waggon is within their grasp. The last Heritage Group Journal (161 Spring 2025) had a brief description of the early works ongoing. This is a project that will, inevitably, take a number of years to achieve and assistance will be gratefully accepted. The project will be formally launched later this year so if you’re not a member yet, join us to get full details and more from our Journal. www.frheritage.org.uk/membership/ In the meantime, if anyone would like to assist with artwork for a project logo, leaflet, or assist in any other way please get in touch with the Group Chairman using the email address on the website. ... See MoreSee Less

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Festiniog Railway Heritage Group

2 months ago

Festiniog Railway Heritage Group
In the details - a recent project funded by the Heritage Group was to change the buffing heads on the chopper couplings of the Simplex from the standard circular design to rectangular to match the shape of its original couplings. A small detail but worth it for the look. Our thanks to the Slate Waggon team for diverting from their usual persuasion to complete this. ... See MoreSee Less
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Festiniog Railway Heritage Group updated their status.

2 months ago

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Festiniog Railway Heritage Group

2 months ago

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Data breach:Physical copies of HGJ 161 sent this week went out with a membership details form. This has the member’s address on one side for posting. The other side has a membership renewal form pre-populated with the member’s details. Unfortunately, it appears that there was a printing issue as a result of which many of the forms have one member’s address on the address side, but the form is populated with the information for another member. The data incorrectly exposed is the name, address, membership number, membership expiry date, type of payment (standing order...), and whether the member concerned has completed a Gift Aid form. No payment details or other sensitive information was disclosed.Our investigation suggests that although the forms were correctly presented to the printer, something in the printer's process has misaligned the two sides of the form and is therefore likely to affect all members that receive a physical copy. We have deployed an additional due diligence step in our process to prevent a repeat.The Heritage Group committee sincerely apologises to all our members for this. We have not taken this lightly and understand the concern this may cause. If you have further queries please contact the membership secretary using the details available on our website. ... See MoreSee Less

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