Heritage route
Talyllyn Railway
Tywyn → Nant Gwernol · Wales
Talyllyn Railway in pictures
Photographs by their authors, hosted on Wikimedia Commons · tap through for the licence
- Distance
- 11.7 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 1 h
- Average speed
- 12 km/h
- Top speed
- 25 km/h
- Operator
- Talyllyn Railway Preservation Society
- Train
- Preserved 0-4-0T / 0-4-2T steam locomotives (Talyllyn, Dolgoch, Edward Thomas)
- Countries
- Wales
- In service since
- 1866
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The world’s first railway saved by volunteers, in 1951: its Victorian steam engines still cross Dolgoch Viaduct into the Fathew valley.
How this line was checked
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 35 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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