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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. There are no passenger trains in winter, but the Festiniog Railway still attracts many people to this corner of Wales: enthusiasts, who come for weekends or for winter holidays to work on the track or in the shops for the pleasure of helping this singular Railway to prosper.

S. Evans The whole of the Festiniog Railway was uncared-for from 1946 to 1954. But this section above Dduallt is unlikely to be restored to passenger train standards, since it will be by-passed by the Deviation. It acts as a reminder of what has been done and what remains.