Demonstrating "like it was" on the tracks below the huge slate spoil tip near Blaenau Ffestiniog. The two old saddle tank locmotives "Hugh Napier" (Hunslet 1904, owned by the National Trust) and "... (more)
"Palmerston" and "Prince" of the "Small England class" with a train of empty slate waggons are rounding the spiral in Dduallt on the way up to Blaenau Ffestiniog. Bot... (more)
"Hugh Napier" is an 0-4-0 ST Hunslet quarry saddle tank (built in 1904) which worked at Penrhyn Quarries, where it was part of the "Large Quarry" class. It is owned by the Nati... (more)
The Ffestiniog Railway was opened in 1836 mainly for the transport of slate from different quarries around Blaenau Ffestiniog down to the harbour of Porthmadog for shipment abroad. The line was bu... (more)