The Festiniog & Blaenau Railway (F&BR) was a narrow gauge railway built in 1868 to connect the town of Blaenau Ffestiniog in Wales with the slate quarries...
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Bala with Blaenau Ffestiniog. The railway originally connected Bala with Llan Ffestiniog. It was incorporated by the Bala and Festiniog Railway Act 1873...
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Blaenau Ffestiniog railway station serves the slate mining town of Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales, and is the passenger terminus of the Conwy Valley Line from...
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The Festiniog Railway Company, which owns the railway, is the oldest surviving railway company in the world. It also owns the Welsh Highland Railway, which...
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Blaenau Festiniog Junction railway station (also known as Stesion Fain railway station) was the Festiniog Railway (FR)'s third of eventually five passenger...
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(603 mm) narrow gauge Festiniog and Blaenau Railway (F&BR); it opened with the line on 30 May 1868. The F&BR ran the three and a half route miles northwards...
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trains on the Festiniog and Blaenau Railway as well as the Ffestiniog Railway. In December 1882, The Princess underwent a substantial overhaul and a large cast...
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Duffws was the Festiniog Railway's (FR) second passenger station in Blaenau Ffestiniog, then in Merionethshire, now in Gwynedd, Wales. This station is...
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1 ft 11+3⁄4 in (603 mm) narrow gauge Festiniog and Blaenau Railway (F&BR). The narrow gauge line's primary traffic was passengers, and workmen in particular, with...
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1883, the Bala and Festiniog Railway (B&FR) and the Festiniog Railway (FR) opened what would be known as an interchange station in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Merionethshire...
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Dinas station was built by the Festiniog Railway (FR). It was the first passenger station in Blaenau Ffestiniog, then in Merionethshire, now in Gwynedd...
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Graig Ddu quarry (category Ffestiniog Railway)
connect to the Festiniog and Blaenau Railway. In 1883, the railway was replaced by a standard gauge extension of the Great Western Railway, and quarry wagons...
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stations: The Ffestiniog Railway The Festiniog & Blaenau Railway The Conwy Valley line of the London & North Western Railway The Bala Ffestiniog Line...
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in Gwynedd, Wales. The 1 ft 11+1⁄2 in (597 mm) narrow gauge Festiniog and Blaenau Railway (F&BR) opened Tyddyngwyn station on 29 May 1868 to serve the...
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Blaenau Ffestiniog North (initially named plain "Blaenau Festiniog", without a second f) was the London and North Western Railway's (LNWR's) second passenger...
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The Spooners of Porthmadog (redirect from James Spooner (railway engineer))
Talyllyn Railway, the Festiniog and Blaenau Railway, the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways and the Carnarvonshire Railway. Through publications and overseas...
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Ffestiniog Railway was originally built to be worked by gravity, with horses used to haul the empty slate wagons uphill from Porthmadog to Blaenau Ffestiniog...
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railway companies built lines to tap Blaenau's seemingly limitless potential: The Ffestiniog Railway The Festiniog and Blaenau Railway The Bala and Festiniog...
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(603 mm) narrow gauge Festiniog and Blaenau Railway (F&BR); it opened with the line on 30 May 1868. The F&BR ran the three and a half route miles northwards...
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outset; they were the Festiniog and Blaenau Railway's biggest source of revenue. Such a service between Trawsfynydd and Blaenau Ffestiniog survived to...
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travelling on the WHR and the Festiniog Railway to Blaenau Ffestiniog and then changing again to take the standard gauge railway to their original starting...
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standard gauge as the extension of the new Bala & Festiniog Railway after purchase by the Great Western Railway. Two locomotives were taken over, both being...
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two narrow gauge railways: the Ffestiniog Railway, which was opened in 1836 to carry dressed slate from the Quarries around Blaenau Ffestiniog to the...
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Ruabon–Barmouth line. The route to Blaenau was single track throughout. The stations at Bala, Arenig, Trawsfynydd and Festiniog had two platforms, each with...
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(603 mm) narrow gauge Festiniog and Blaenau Railway (F&BR); it opened with the line on 30 May 1868. The F&BR ran the three and a half route miles from...
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Ffestiniog Adventure - The Festiniog Railway's Deviation Project, 1981. Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (1995). Porthmadog to Blaenau. West Sussex: Middleton...
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railway station was a temporary northern terminus station of the Festiniog and Blaenau Railway (F&BR), sited between the street of the same name and Cwmbowydd...
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The Festiniog Railway's Deviation Project. Ffestiniog Railway Company: Traveller's Guide. Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (1995). Porthmadog to Blaenau. West...
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outset; they were the Festiniog and Blaenau Railway's biggest source of revenue. Such a service between Trawsfynydd and Blaenau Ffestiniog survived to...
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outset; they were the Festiniog and Blaenau Railway's biggest source of revenue. Such a service between Trawsfynydd and Blaenau Ffestiniog survived to...
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