Fairbourne Railway has been operating from the village centre to Penrhyn Point at the mouth of the Mawddach Estuary since 1895. From there, it connects to a ferry to Barmouth.

Eerie remnants of an ambitious but ultimately unsuccessful project are revealed on the Gwynedd coast when the wind blows and the sands shift. An abandoned railway, now buried under more than 6ft ...

A narrow gauge steam railway in Gwynedd has started a "crisis fund" to try to avoid job losses. Managers at the Fairbourne Railway, near Barmouth, say it is currently losing £40,000 a year.

As for the main railway, in its heyday, it carried more than 70,000 passengers a year, taking them from Fairbourne village to Penrhyn Point, where a ferry crosses to Barmouth.

A map of the Cambrian Main Line and Cambrian Coast Line (Image: Cambrian Railway Partnership) Day 3: Talyllyn Railway and Fairbourne Railway. On the third day, you'll head to Machynlleth Station ...

The locomotives coming out of the new Sukna station will be half the size of the toy trains chugging up the hills here. The UK-based Darjeeling Himalayan Railway Society (DHRS) has decided to recreate ...

When the wind blows and the sands shift, eerie reminders of an ambitious but ultimately futile venture are revealed on the Gwynedd coast. Winding through the dunes is an abandoned railway, in ...

Managers at the Fairbourne Railway, near Barmouth, say it is currently losing £40,000 a year. The debt used to be covered by donations from railway enthusiast Prof Tony Atkinson but he died a few ...

A narrow gauge steam railway in Gwynedd has started a "crisis fund" to try to avoid job losses. Managers at the Fairbourne Railway, near Barmouth, say it is currently losing £40,000 a year. The ...