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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. October begins with one or two Wednesday-only trains, and then the permanent way department takes possession of the track, the coaches are examined then put away for their winter’s hibernation and the locomotives await their turn for attention in the works.

S. Evans ‘Prince’ trots into Minffordd on the high level; the bridge spans the low level British Rail platform. The centre coach ran on the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway, became a henhouse and was bought and rebuilt by the Festiniog as a buffet car. The other two coaches are new.