Advantages: Wonderful small railway - see the sites and stay out of the rain! Disadvantages: None
...to Blaenau Ffestiniog.
The Ffestiniog railway was built to transport slate quarried from the hills behind Blaenau Ffestiniog down to a specially constructed jetty at Porthmadog. The original motive power was horses that pulled up the empty trucks and rode back down in the last carriage as gravity pulled the train down towards the sea.
Nowadays the railway is primarily a tourist experience. It is preserved and staffed by volunteers who drive the ... ...enjoy a ride on the Ffestiniog Railway. There are marvellous views that change with every bend in the track. As the train gains height you look down valleys and over treetops. Birds a plenty can been seen on the estuary stretch and summertime flowers cover the upland forests. You pass lakes, rivers and waterfalls splashing down along side the track. Walkers can leave the train halfway to enjoy trails emanating from the station and catch a later train ...
Pinotage 30.04.2001 (28.04.2001)
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Advantages: a good day out Disadvantages: quite expensive
...but most especially on the Ffestiniog railway.
The Ffestiniog railway runs from Ffestiniog in North Wales, to Porthmadoc, also in Wales, in the 'armpit' of the Lyn peninsula. It's within reasonable striking distance for anyone on a north Wales holiday - anywhere in the Snowdonia National Park in fact. You can board at either end, there are also stops along the way, but I think there are advantages to going from one of the 'ends'. I have ridden both ... ...recent.
Arriving at Blaneau Ffestiniog on a wet morning (this is a good thing to do on a rainy day). It took some finding, there are a few places with 'Ffestiniog' in the name round here, but the road signs were good and we didn't get lost once, despite how talentless a navigator I am. Normal trains also run from the station, but after hunting about we spotted a shop to one side of the carpark, and bought tickets here (at time of writing, fourteen ...
Bryn_Pearson 22.09.2003
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