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Built in 1836 to carry slate by gravity, the Festiniog Railway was the world’s first public narrow-gauge line, passengers being carried for the first time on such a narrow gauge in 1865. Unintendedly it became Britain’s most scenic railway route and is run by our oldest surviving private railway company. After the spring holiday peak, June is a steady month, with four or five trains sufficing on Monday to Friday, two on Saturday and one on Sunday afternoons. A Wednesday evening trip makes good use of the long evenings; the licensed buffet car is popular on this train.

N. F Gurley Two birds, one stone. 2-4-0 diesel 'Moelwyn’ is working through to Dduallt with one vacuum-piped wagon, ‘Blanche’, in works primer, to Tan-y-Bwlch with a special “passenger”. They emerge into evening sunlight on the horseshoe Whistling Curve, below Tan-y-Bwlch.