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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

2 weeks ago

Our good friends at Tywyn have asked us to alert our followers of this exciting opportunity. The Narrow Gauge Railway Museum in Tywyn is offering an internship project for a fixed term of 8 weeks full time. Ideally suited for a student who is going to be in the area for the summer - deadline for applications is 5th August - anytime up until 2359... Please send your application to shirley.atk ... See MoreSee Less

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Festiniog Railway Heritage Group

2 weeks ago

In a recent discussion at work about cant (think banking like Brooklands or NASCAR), your scribe mentioned the levels used by the Festiniog Railway prior to preservation. The levels were later reduced when Fred Howes reworked the track geometry. Boston Lodge curve is recorded to have had “in excess of” 4” (101.6mm). To put that into perspective, for many years the mainline railways used similar ... See MoreSee Less

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Festiniog Railway Heritage Group

1 month ago

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

2 months 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