Original upload date: Mon, 03 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Sun, 05 Dec 2021 04:46:27 GMT
In 1954 the Ffestiniog Railway Company was taken over by a group of enthusiasts led by Alan Pegler in order to return the railway to operational condition as a tourist line, the genesis for today's fa
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mous Ffestiniog Railway. It would take until the 1980s to return trains to Blaenau Ffestiniog, but not to the station seen here in a derelict condition in 1955. Trains still ran to the two standard gauge stations in the town, where we see GWR Pannier no. 7433 on a train to Bala and a Stanier class 3P tank no. 40103 arriving from and departing to Llandudno Junction.
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