Families living above a tourist railway believe thick acrid smoke from trains is making them ill. They claim fumes from the Welsh Highland Railway has caused "considerable concern" on Rhes Segontiwm, ...

Nature runs wild in Snowdonia National Park, which is its main appeal – unless, like Paul Lewin, you are trying to run a railway. "Believe me, in 50 years nature can do quite a lot of damage to a ...

Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railway said work on Caernarfon station could start at the end of the year An historic steam railway in Gwynedd has unveiled plans for a new £1.2m station in Caernarfon.

A steam train full of passengers derailed while travelling through Snowdonia in the second incident of its kind in a fortnight . The Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railways engine, which was ...

A 106-year-old steam locomotive that has worked across three continents has been restored to haul heritage trains in Gwynedd. The narrow gauge tank engine was built by the Baldwin locomotive company ...

In 1937 an obscure, financially struggling railway line in north Wales closed and almost no one noticed. In most countries that would be the end of the story. A letter published in the Manchester ...

Scotland’s Highland Railways offer some of the most spectacular railway scenery in the world and this is your chance to experience it for yourself. Scotland’s Highland Railways offer some of the most ...

Major components of a powerful narrow gauge steam locomotive have been delivered to the Welsh Highland Railways workshops at Dinas, near Caernarfon. Two power units, the boiler cradle, bunker and ...

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An historic steam railway in Gwynedd has unveiled plans for a new £1.2m station in Caernarfon. The Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railway said the project would create two jobs and safeguard more than ...