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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 ... See MoreSee Less

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Festiniog Railway Heritage Group

1 month ago

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 oth ... See MoreSee Less

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Festiniog Railway Heritage Group

2 months ago

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

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 p ... See MoreSee Less

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