Currently we are facing one of its greatest challenges for survival due to COVID-19. See the Appeal below.
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Donations and legacies gifted to the Ffestiniog Railway help it make improvements and complete special projects. Your support could help support locomotives, carriages, buildings or facilities for passengers, along with projects to preserve and enhance the railway’s unique heritage.
A range of completed projects, part of the £1.3m raised by the Society over the last 10 years, is shown in the gallery above.
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The Festiniog Railway Company was able to obtain compensation in 1972 for the disruption caused by the construction of the pumped storage schemes. This involved the second-longest legal battle in British legal history, which took eighteen years and two months.
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Frist surveyed in 1957, Deviation work started in 1965, completed
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in 1978. Re-opened to Blaenau Ffestiniog 1982
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Emergency joint appeal to ensure the survival of the Railway during the current unprecedented challenge.
11 February 2022
Tickets for 2022 services on sale at 12:00 (midday) Wednesday, 9th February!
With much work...
17 September 2021
Update on the appeal and the loco dismantled for inspection.