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Useful Links / Cysylltiadau Defnyddiol

Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railways / Rheilffyrdd Ffestiniog ac Eryri

Ffestiniog Railway Society / Cymdeithas Rheilffordd Ffestiniog

Welsh Highland Railway Society / Cymdeithas Rheilffordd Eryri

Welsh Highland Heritage Railway / Rheilffordd Ucheldir Cymru

Ffestiniog Railway Heritage Group / Grŵp Etifeddiaeth Rheilffordd Ffestiniog
The equivalent of this site for the Ffestiniog Railway Company

FR Heritage Group Wiki
For information on all aspects of the Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railways. Due to the continuing link with the Ffestiniog Railway,  a lot of material is recorded with the FR  Heritage Group, and is available online, via its Wiki.  There is a list of references contained here which relate to additional information.

WHR Society’s Official Reconstruction Site
This record was kept until August 2009 by the late Ben Fisher and subsequently maintained by the WHR Society until reconstruction was complete.  It is now archived by the society in its ultimate form.

Barrie Hughes’s Unofficial Reconstruction Site
A record kept by Barrie Hughes since the early days

Nick Booker’s JCRussell blog
A developing biographical blog of James C Russell

Richard Maund’s Web page about
finding the Welsh Highland Railway in archives

The Bryngwyn Path from Tryfan Junction to Moel Tryfan and Waunfawr
Excellent  description of the Slate Trail leading from Tryfan Junction

Portmadoc, Beddgelert and South Snowdon Railway (Beddgelert Light Railway Extension) Order 1906
[ebook]   A piece of the legislative jigsaw

Photographs:  the Group has built up a large collection of archive photographs of the  WHR.  Many of them are accessible for members online at the Group’s Photo Archive