Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways
This is the website of the Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways - two unique narrow gauge railways (both operated by the Ffestiniog Railway Company) with a fascinating past and an even more exciting future. We are currently re-instating the long-lost railway link between Caernarfon and Porthmadog. By 2009 we hope that you will be able to travel from Caernarfon right through to Blaenau Ffestiniog – almost 40 miles of narrow-gauge steam!
The RHEILFFORDD ERYRI / WELSH HIGHLAND RAILWAY (CAERNARFON) is Snowdonia’s newest railway. Trains currently run on a 12-mile journey from our main station in Caernarfon, overlooked by the magnificent castle, to the village of Rhyd Ddu nestling 650 feet above sea level on the slopes of Snowdon. This is the halfway stage of this exciting project – work is in full swing on the remaining section to Porthmadog.

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The RHEILFFORDD FFESTINIOG RAILWAY takes you on a 13˝-mile journey from the harbour in Porthmadog to the slate-quarrying town of Blaenau Ffestiniog. Our historic trains climb over 700 feet from sea level into the mountains through tranquil pastures and magnificent forests, past lakes and waterfalls, round horseshoe bends (even a complete spiral) clinging to the side of the mountain or even tunnelling through it.

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