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. When trains start running over the completed link in 2011 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 is North Wales’ newest railway. Trains run on a spectacular 22 mile scenic journey from Caernarfon - climbing over 650ft from sea level as they cross the flanks of Mount Snowdon, before zigzagging dramatically down the steep hillside to reach Beddgelert village, the magnificent Aberglaslyn Pass and on to the new southern terminus at Pont Croesor (beside the RSPB Glaslyn Osprey Centre).

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The RHEILFFORDD FFESTINIOG RAILWAY takes you on a 13½-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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