A Welsh railway where the creator of Thomas the Tank Engine volunteered as a guard is celebrating 75 years since becoming a world first. In 1951, the Talyllyn Railway in Gwynedd became the first ...

Traditionally the Great Little Trains of Wales relied on good old-fashioned Welsh coal to drive them through the mountains. But now Talyllyn Railway, the world’s oldest preserved railway, is ...

Two famous actors and a wedding party, assisted by nearly a dozen locomotives in steam, helped the world’s first passenger-carrying narrow gauge railway to celebrate its 150th anniversary at the ...

An appeal to raise funds for the world’s first preserved railway has brought in donations totalling nearly £67,000. The Covid-19 pandemic has meant that Talyllyn Railway in Tywyn, Mid Wales, is unable ...

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