As part of a new interpretation project, the Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railways, Britain’s longest preserved steam railway, is asking people living between Blaenau Ffestiniog and Caernarfon, and beyond, to come forward with their railway stories.

Spooner’s recently announced that they would be joining forces with Big Dog Pizza for ‘Tuesday Pizza’ nights!

Are you interested in working in the heritage sector? Are you looking for a way to gain experience? Do you know someone who might be interested?

The Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways, the Welsh Highland Railway Society, the Welsh Highland Heritage Railway and the Welsh Highland Railway Heritage Group are jointly sponsoring a series of activities and events in 2022 and 2023 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the opening of the ‘original’ WHR in 1923.

Following today’s change to Covid restrictions in Wales, we are now working towards our plan to further open up access to our railway.

A new tourism project called ‘Wales on Rails’ has been launched to encourage more people to travel around Wales sustainably using the national rail network, heritage railways and buses.

The ‘Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways’, ‘Cymdeithas Rheilffordd Eryri’, ‘Welsh Highland Heritage Group’ and the ‘Welsh Highland Heritage Railway’ are delighted to be working together to organise the upcoming centenary of the Welsh Highland Railway, which will officially take place in 2023.

The news many of you have been eagerly anticipating is here… Tickets for our 2022 services are now on sale!

Congratulations to ‘Urdd Gobaith Cymru’ who are celebrating their 100th anniversary today!

Spooner’s has reopened its doors following a period of restoration work in order to enhance our facilities and the service we provide to our customers.

It’s a crisp Winter’s day here in Porthmadog, but the days are growing lighter and we have some exciting news to share with you – our 2022 season will start on 26th March.

Here at Spooner’s we are starting the New Year by carrying out some restoration work in order to enhance our facilities and the service we provide to our customers.

Here are the details for our Food and Bar service over the Christmas / New Year period.

November is here and as we begin to look forward to our Christmas services, we would like to publicise the updated opening times for our Catering Outlets…

The Infrastructure Department of the Festiniog and Welsh Highland Railways has produced an ambitious Autumn and Winter maintenance plan…

Bachmann Europe have just announced new products to be introduced this winter. Pride of place (OK, we’re slightly biased here) is the launch of models of Ffestiniog Railway Double Fairlies in 009 scale.

We are delighted to announce that the Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways (FFWHR) has been successful in its application for a £3.1million grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF).

On Friday October 8th. we were pleased to welcome Heritage Railway Association Director Steve Clews to the railway to present two awards.

On Sunday October 10th. a brief ceremony was held at the southern portal of Moelwyn tunnel to unveil a plaque commemorating their completion.

We are delighted to announce that Topsy has returned to the Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways following a loan to the National Museum of York as part of their Brass Steel & Fire Exhibition.

The September sun was shining as supporters of the Ffestiniog Railway came together to celebrate the official unveiling of two plaques at the recently restored ‘Gweithdy’ building in Minffordd.

Thank you to all those who attended the recent K1 event on 18th/19th September.

We had a day of rail safety information last week as we welcomed both a member of the North Wales Police and actors from the Network Rail Staycation campaign.

We have now updated our Booking Systems with tickets for September and October now on sale – so you can PLAN your visit and BOOK your tickets now!

We were delighted to show our support at Cae Clyd this week as Porthmadog FC and Blaenau Ffestiniog Amateurs FC played out an entertaining match in the Ardal North West League.

We are well into August and trains are really busy. Thank you for your support if you have travelled; and also for playing your part in keeping our railway safe.

Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways gets on board “Love Your Railway” nationwide campaign.

We here at the Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways are delighted to hear the fantastic news that UNESCO World Heritage Site status has been obtained for ‘the slate landscape of North West Wales’.

Spooner’s will now be open 7 days a week between 09:00 – 22:00

We would like to offer a grateful thanks to our dedicated team of volunteers and staff who have been busy renovating our Blaenau Ffestiniog Station.

The Festiniog and Welsh Highland Railways have staged “Kid’s Week” for many years; we have now renamed it “Young Volunteers Training Week”.

Tywyn based Talyllyn Railway has announced that it has placed an order with the Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways.

We are now at a point where we can begin to offer a greater variety of services and we are delighted to announce that we will be introducing 3 new experiences in July!

We have taken the opportunity to record the Reminiscences of two Ffestiniog Railway pioneers without whom the railway would not exist as it does today.

We are delighted to announce that we will be working with Porthmadog local brewery ‘Purple Moose’, who have produced for us a ‘new own-labelled railway themed beer’ exclusively for sale at the railway.

In line with the latest update to guidelines, we’re very pleased to confirm that Spooner’s Bar will be ‘open for business’ again from Monday 17th May.

Having only recently announced that we are resuming services in May, we now have some even better news to share…

It’s time to look onwards and upwards as we continue to form plans for our 2021 services.

We are pleased to announce that we have several new job opportunities available at the Railway.

Our annual Rail Ale event will not be taking place this year as we continue to adhere to Welsh Government regulations.