Date: 09/10/2015

Events are being held in Gwynedd to mark 150 years since the first narrow gauge railway journey in Britain which carried passengers. Before the Ffestiniog Railway ran the journeys, it was illegal for a small railway to carry passengers. As the tracks were only two feet (60cm) apart, it was thought carrying people would have been impractical. To mark the anniversary, events will be held throughout the weekend at the station and in Porthmadog.

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150 years on from railway history

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Events are held to mark 150 years since the first narrow gauge railway journey in Britain which carried passengers.

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Prince and Blanche at the head of the first train of the day to Blaenau at Porthmadog station on 3 April 2007.
Location: Porthmadog Harbour [FR]
Company: Festiniog Railway
03/04/2007 Mark Poustie

Narrow Gauge locomotive Mountaineer heads out onto The Cob as it leaves the Ffestiniog Railway's Porthmadog Terminus in the spring of 1988.
Location: Porthmadog Harbour [FR]
Company: Festiniog Railway
26/03/1988 David Pesterfield

The last train of the day for Blaenau Ffestiniog about to leave Porthmadog station and head out over The Cob on a wet autumn afternoon in 1982.
Location: Porthmadog Harbour [FR]
Company: Festiniog Railway
14/10/1982 John Furnevel