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I am very pleased to report that on a typical November day in N.Wales the new carriage shed is now in use for winter storage. The weather didn’t help with getting good pictures!

The Board of Cymdeithas Rheilffordd Eryri is saddened to report the sudden death of Director and Trustee, Pete Randall. Pete was a former General Manager of the Festiniog Railway Company.

As you will know, the FfWHR has received an initial grant from NLHF to develop a project to tell the story of the Ffestiniog & Welsh Highlands Railways.

This afternoon, the Welsh First Minister announced a ‘firebreak’ lockdown, due to begin at 18:00 on Friday, 23rd October until Monday, 9th November.

In line with government regulations, we will not be running train services from the 23rd October onwards.

Back in December, the Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways achieved first round approval for a £4.2million project from the ‘National Lottery Heritage Fund’ (NLHF) to help share the heritage of the railway with more people, in new ways.

In golden Autumn Sunshine Palmerston has just pulled the heritage freight train in to the down line at Minffordd ready to stable it in the waggon tracks shed. It is in more way than one way the beginning of the

On Saturday October 10th. at a very damp Dduallt Station, Welsh Pony was officially named in front of a limited number of invited guests.

Paul Lewin, F&WHR General Manager, speaks about how Welsh Pony will be named at the ‘Bygones weekend’ in October 2020.