Heritage route
Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland
Caernarfon → Blaenau Ffestiniog · Wales
Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland in pictures
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- Distance
- 62 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 4 h
- Average speed
- 16 km/h
- Top speed
- 40 km/h
- Operator
- Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways
- Train
- Double Fairlie steam
- Countries
- Wales
- In service since
- 1836
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The world’s oldest narrow-gauge railway company (1836): double-ended Fairlie steam from Caernarfon castle through Snowdonia to the slate town of Blaenau.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from 2 OpenStreetMap relations, their own nodes end to end: relation 163449 (39 km), relation 163455 (22 km) — 61 km of the route between them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 4 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: the railway’s own site — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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