Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways

Looking both ways: When Robert Fairlie ‘Double Up’ Steam

17 March 2022 Robin Jones Features, Steam

Double Fairlie Merddin Emrys at Harbour station, Porthmadog, where the Ffestiniog Railway joins the Welsh Highland Railway. The locomotive dates from 1879. JAMES WAITE/Ff&WHR

The Ffestiniog Railway is famous as the only place in the world where the legendary double Fairlie articulated ‘back-to-back’ steam locomotives can be seen in action…