Heritage

• Brief Summary

• Chapter 1: The Forerunners

  • The Croesor Tramway
  • The Gorseddau Junction and Portmadoc Railway
  • The North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways
    • NWNGR Rolling Stock
  • Further Schemes
  • The Portmadoc, Beddgelert and South Snowdon Railway
  
  

• Chapter 2: The Welsh Highland Railway

  • Construction
  • Locomotives and Rolling Stock
  • The Fall into Receivership
  • The Ffestiniog in Control
  • Decline and Closure
  • Demolition
  • Epilogue
  
  

• Chapter 3: The Route Described

  • Dinas Junction to Tryfan Junction
  • The Bryngwyn Branch
  • Tryfan Junction to Plas-y-Nant
  • Lake Quellyn to South Snowdon
  • South Snowdon to Beddgelert
  • Beddgelert to Nantmor
  • Nantmor to Portmadoc
  • Portmadoc

See also:

• WHR Heritage Group - recording, preserving and restoring the fascinating heritage of the WHR.
• Photo Gallery - hightlights of the Welsh Highland Collection and other sources.
• Milestones in WHR History - major milestones from the earliest tramways to the present day.
• The Welsh Highland Railway At War - the railway was tossed on the misfortunes of war but now proudly owns the heritage of several historic war veteran vehicles.
• Welsh Highland Railway: A Memory - a short story of the closure of the WHR, translated from Welsh. This one-page article was provided by David Stephenson.

And elsewhere:

• Ben Fisher's Illustrated Route Description . Ben's description relates to the modern trackbed and its reconstruction, and includes the former LNWR standard-gauge section from Caernarfon to Dinas Junction.
• Andy & Steve Goodwin's WHR - The Route in Modern Pictures - a recent photographic survey along the trackbed. The pictures say it all!
• History of the Ffestiniog Railway , with which the history of the WHR was always intertwined.