Welsh Highland Railway History
Contents
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Chapter 1: The Forerunners
- The Croesor Tramway
- The Gorseddau Junction and Portmadoc Railway
- The North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways
- Further Schemes
- The Portmadoc, Beddgelert and South Snowdon Railway
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Chapter 2: The Welsh Highland Railway
- Construction
- Locomotives and Rolling Stock
- The Fall into Receivership
- The Ffestiniog in Control
- Decline and Closure
- Demolition
- Epilogue
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Chapter 3: The Route Described
- 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.
- 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.

