It was the world's first passenger-carrying narrow gauge railway, provided the inspiration for Thomas the Tank Engine and, this weekend, the Talyllyn Railway celebrates its 150th birthday. Built to ...

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Bryneglwys Slate Quarry, Abergynolwyn and Talyllyn Railway formed an integral part of the successful bid for the designation as the central hub of the slate industry in Southern Snowdonia. The bid was ...

If successful, seven sites, including the mines, quarries and railways that took the slate to the coast will join such renowned places as the Great Wall of China, the Taj Mahal, the Grand Canyon and ...

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 ...