North Wales Narrow Gauge Railway
[edit] EDITORIAL WARNING
The company that ran rail services between Dinas Junction and Bryngwyn, and Rhyd Ddu between 1876 and 1923 was known as the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways but during its existance also used the singular title. All references are kept in the plural in relation to that company
[edit] Modern North Wales Narrow Gauge Railway
This is not the 19th century operating company and forerunner of the Welsh Highland Railway (WHR), but a family-owned firm which made a bid in February 1980 to build a miniature railway on the WHR trackbed between Waunfawr and Rhyd Ddu, and failed.
This development would have used the promoters' 12.25" gauge equipment built for the very short-lived Réseau Guerlédan in Brittany, which they later brought to Wales for their redevelopment of the Fairbourne Railway in the mid-1980s. The Fairbourne has since passed to new owners but retains two half-size representations of NWNGR/WHR locomotives Beddgelert (built for Guerlédan but never taken to France) and Russell (a Fairbourne rebuild of the handsome Leek & Manifold-style 2-6-4T Elaine built for Guerlédan, also never taken to France).
from the WHR Project Site
