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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. In Boston Lodge works, the winter’s work programme will be well under way: a new coach under construction to meet the ever-increasing demands of the Traffic Department, other older coaches under repair, locomotives being overhauled.

S. Evans Tasmanian Railways No. 1, of 1909, was the first Beyer-Garratt articulated locomotive ever built. In 1947 she came back to this country as a museum piece at the Gorton works of her makers. When they closed she was bought by F.R., who propose to have her going again.