Wales' little trains are famous as it boasts some of the world's oldest narrowest gauge railways A Welsh railway immortalised by Thomas The Tank Engine's creator "would get more generous Covid ...

Chris spent months travelling on many of Britain's loveliest narrow-gauge railways while researching his book Small Island by Little Train. And exclusively for Country Life, he's picked out his all ...

TWO narrow gauge railways have seen their passenger numbers soar this summer. More than 360,000 journeys have been made on the Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railways since March. Passenger numbers on ...

TRIBUTES have been paid to an eminent railway author who sparked a revival of narrow gauge railways. James Ian Craig Boyd spent a lifetime researching and writing about the narrow gauge railways of ...

Talyllyn Railway in Mid Wales is included because it was the first Welsh narrow gauge slate railway to be designed for steam haulage from the outset and the world’s first preserved railway. General ...

TWO North Wales narrow gauge railways will celebrate their link up next year with a fascinating collection of locomotives in action. TWO North Wales narrow gauge railways will celebrate their link up ...

The Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railways 'Lilla' engine and carriages. (Image credit: Chris Parry) The Ffestiniog and Eryri Railway is celebrating receiving the stamp of approval from the Welsh ...

The Welsh Highland narrow gauge steam railway runs from coast to coast through the mountains of the Snowdonia National Park and what better way of seeing it than from one of the Beyer Garratt steam ...

STANDING in a locomotive shed at Porthmadog, in North Wales, the North Oxfordshire village of Hook Norton seems a world away, writes William Crossley. But resting on the narrow-gauge rails in the shed ...

A Welsh railway immortalised by Thomas The Tank Engine's creator "would get more generous Covid financial help if it was in England", its boss has said. The Talyllyn Railway, where The Rev W Awdry ...

TWO narrow gauge railways have seen their passenger numbers soar this summer. TWO narrow gauge railways have seen their passenger numbers soar this summer. More than 360,000 journeys have been made on ...