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Cymdeithas Rheilffordd Ffestiniog

Local Area Groups

Bristol Area Group

Welcome to the Bristol Group of the Ffestiniog Railway Society. The Group provides a forum for all those who live in and around the Bristol and surrounding area and are passionate about the UK’s leading Heritage Railway.

Bristol Group Members are involved on both the Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railways as volunteers. Whether sanding down woodwork in the Heritage Carriage Shop, guarding trains, producing Whistle Boards at home or attending local model railway or other shows, we are always in need of more support.

See our Facebook site for latest pictures.

Meetings

Diary:

2024
Thursday 24th October “The Padarn, Penrhyn and Snowdon Mountain Railways” by David Waldren.

Thursday 21st November, “The Statfold Barn Railway” Philip Stallard.

2025
Thursday 13th February “The Lynton & Barnstaple Railway 1979 to date”, Mark Bladwell, Hon. Chairman, L&B Somerset Area Support Group.

Thursday 20st March, “The Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railway Archives and their Management”. Chris Jones, FR Co. Archivist.

Thursday 10th April, AGM and “Marketing the Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railway” Osian Hughes.

Meetings start at 7.45 pm.

Venue:

Room 4, BAWA Centre at Filton, 589 Southmead Road, Filton, Bristol, BS34 7RG.

Contact

Secretary: Mark Temple, 0117 9682522, bristol@ffestiniograilway.org.uk

Other Activities

The Group is happy to provide public speakers in the Bristol, Hereford and West Wales areas in return for a donation to the project we are currently funding. Contact the secretary.

Group visits from time to time. For example to Bristol Power Box and the west abutment of the Clifton Suspension Bridge.

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Volunteering on the Railway Mini Gallery

Working on the track
Explaining how a steam loco works
The drains gang
Around the loco