National Library of Wales

The National Library of Wales contains many archives, such as newspaper archives, that mention events on the Festiniog Railway.

Other National Libraries (with Festiniog material)

• National Library of Australia.

Scanning Imperfections

The scanning process used by the NLW (and no doubt other national libraries) is imperfect, and the output text often contains errors. The search function doesn't seem to be clever enough to search for these imperfections. These misspellings can be searched for intentionally, as shown in the following table.

K	Spelling	Frequency NLW	Frequency NLA	Remarks	Reference
1	Fastiniog	144	006
11	Festiniog	61124	989	Probably the correct spelling as this is the most frequent one.
16	Fhstiniog	12	000
21	Fistiniog	15	005
31	Fostiniog	199	052	"o" and "e" are often swapped
41	Fustiniog	22	001
51	Fvstiniog	10	001
61	Fwstiniog	3	0
71	Festiniog Railway	N/A	369	Phrase "Festiniog Railway"
76	Festiniog Railway	25671	672	Two words "Lord Festiniog drinks at the Railway Hotel".
81	Lord Festiniog	15590	210	Multi-word searches make many false matches.
86	Ffestiniog	6214	23
87	Ffustiniog	7	0	Rare spellings tend to be mispellings.

To ensure that all matches of F*stiniog are found, it may be necessary to tediously go through all the misspellings, unless that library allows uses to create corrected text in parallel with the imperfectly scanned text.

Note: N/A = Not applicable.

See also

• Accident

External Links

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