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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. The end of the school holidays closes the peak service and for the last two weeks of September traffic only warrants two trains on weekdays and one on Saturdays and Sundays; in fact the Wednesday-only service may have started by the very end of the month. N. F. Gurley Photograph of a historic September: 1957. It is now ten years since ‘Prince’ eased gingerly into Tan-y-Bwlch — the first steam engine to do so since 1946. The disturbed campers were some of the many volunteers to work on the clearance of the track.