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The Ffestiniog railway is about 15 miles (24 km) long and travels between the towns of Blaenau Ffestiniog and Porthmadog. The line travels through spectacular mountainous scenery and has a track gauge of 2 foot.

The Ffestiniog railway is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Wales.

The Ffestiniog railway was originally constructed in the 1830s to transport slate from the inland town of Blaenau Ffestiniog, to the coastal town of Porthmadog where it was loaded onto boats. The railway was initially horseThis article discusses ungulate mammals. For other meanings of horse see Horse (disambiguation). The Horse Equus caballus is a large ungulate mammal, one of the seven modern species of the genus Equus''. It has long played an important role in transportat drawn, until the 1860sEvents and trends Italian unification under King Victor Emmanuel II. Wars for expansion and national unity continue until the incorporation of the Papal States ( March 17, 1861 September 20, 1870). American Civil War fought between the remaining United St when special FairlieAlternate meanings: See Fairlie (disambiguation The Fairlie articulated locomotive was invented and patented by the Scottish engineer, Robert F. Fairlie whose name it bore in 1864. He had become convinced that the conventional pattern of locomotive was se steamIn physical chemistry and in engineering, steam refers to vaporized water. It is a pure, invisible gas (for mist see below), which at standard atmospheric pressure has a temperature of around 100 degrees celsius, and occupies about sixteen hundred times t locomotiveA locomotive is a vehicle that provides the motive power for a railway train. Traditionally, the locomotive or locomotives are positioned at the front of a train, pulling passenger carriages and/or freight vehicles. This requires the locomotive to be moves were built to operate the line. The Ffestiniog was also the first narrow gauge railway in BritainThe word Britain is used to refer to the United Kingdom (UK): i. the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (from 1927), the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ( 1801- 1927) or the United Kingdom of Great Britain ( 1707- 1801). to transport passengerPassenger is the human being using a airplane, railroad, bus and so on. Passenger is also a Swedish metal group. Passenger is also a 1961 film by Andrzej Munk.s.

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The line went bankrupt and was abandoned in the 1940s. For a number of years it lay derelict. In the early 1950s a group of volunteers took over the line to run it as a tourist attraction, and gradually restored the line to working order. This was not helped by a decision by the electricity authority in the mid 1950s, to build a dam, and create a reservoir, which flooded part of the northern end of the line.In the 1970s a new diversion route including a rail spiral and a tunnel was built around the reservoir by volunteer labour, the through route to Blaenau Ffestiniog was completed in 1982.