The station at Llangollen sits alongside the fourteenth century Dee Bridge (built in 1345) in the heart of the Welsh town of Llangollen. It is the only standard gauge heritage railway in North Wales.
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An introduction to the heritage railways of Wales.
Built in 1859, originally being a horse-drawn tram-road, making it the first narrow-gauge railway in Mid-Wales.
Llyn Tegid is Wales largest natural lake, covering 1.75 square miles
The Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway was opened in 1903 to link farming communities as far away as Llanfair Caereinion with the market town of Welshpool where their goods could be sold.
The Ffestiniog Railway Company operates the Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railways, which carry up to 400,000 passengers a year.
Cwmorthin is a short trek away from the station at Tanygrisiau, but well worth a visit. There are several places to park at Tanygrisiau; there is a large car park as you drive towards the station, a small station car park, one by the popular Café and one at the quarry entrance. What’s more, they are all free. Tanygrisiau is also a station on the Ffestiniog Railway, near Blaenau Ffestiniog.
The Brecon Mountain Railway, “Rheilffordd Mynydd Brycheiniog”, is located on the edge of The Brecon Beacons National Park in South-East Wales, three miles north of Merthyr Tydfil. It runs five miles along mountain, lake and forest scenery, including the whole of the Pontsticill Reservoir, before ending its journey at Torpantau.
Taking visitors from Fairbourne to the shores of the Mawddach Estuary for a hundred years.
The UKs longest heritage railway. Running 25 miles from Porthmadog to Caernarfon.
