This is the website of the Ffestiniog and 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.
Take a trip on the Llanberis Lake Railway at the foot of Mount Snowdon. The narrow-gauge steam engines haul their trains along the shores of beautiful Padarn Lake. Enjoy the mountains of Snowdonia from viewpoints quite inaccessible by road.
The Talyllyn Railway is a historic narrow-gauge steam railway, set in the beautiful Mid-Wales countryside. Running from Tywyn to Abergynolwyn and Nant Gwernol, the line passes the delightful Dolgoch Falls and there are excellent forest walk...
The Welsh Highland Railway was one of many narrow gauge railways built to carry Welsh slate from hill to harbour. Now tourists have replaced slate as the main traffic. These pages describe the history of the railway and active plans to rest...