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| rdfs:comment | - The Welsh Highland Railway (WHR)or Rheilffordd Eryri is a long restored narrow gauge heritage railway in the Welsh county of Gwynedd, operating from Caernarfon to Porthmadog, and passing through a number of popular tourist destinations including Beddgelert and the Aberglaslyn Pass. At Porthmadog it connects with the Ffestiniog Railway and to the short Welsh Highland Heritage Railway. In Porthmadog it uses the United Kingdom's only mixed gauge flat rail crossing.
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| terminus | - Caernarfon and Porthmadog
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| Events | - WHR Society reformed as Welsh Highland Light Railway Limited
- FR Co. became involved
- Reopened – Beddgelert to
- Reopened – Dinas to
- Reopened – Hafod y Llyn to
- Reopened – Pont Creosor to
- Reopened – Rhyd Ddu to
- Reopened – Waunfawr to
- WHR opened from to
- WHR Ltd. line opened for passenger service
- First through public passenger trains between Porthmadog and Caernarfon
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| Name | - Rheilffordd Eryri
- Welsh Highland Railway
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| Caption | - WHR locomotive K1, the first Garratt articulated locomotive, at Snowdon Ranger halt with train and Snowdonia behind
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| builtby | - North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways , Welsh Highland Railway
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| Operator | - Festiniog Railway Company and Welsh Highland Railway Limited
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| Years | - 1964
- 1980
- 1990
- 1997-10-11
- 2003-08-18
- 2009-04-07
- 2009-05-21
- 2010-05-27
- 2011-01-04
- 2011-02-19
- August 2000
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| Stage | - Welsh Highland Railway Society formed
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| linename | - Welsh Highland Railway Company
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| abstract | - The Welsh Highland Railway (WHR)or Rheilffordd Eryri is a long restored narrow gauge heritage railway in the Welsh county of Gwynedd, operating from Caernarfon to Porthmadog, and passing through a number of popular tourist destinations including Beddgelert and the Aberglaslyn Pass. At Porthmadog it connects with the Ffestiniog Railway and to the short Welsh Highland Heritage Railway. In Porthmadog it uses the United Kingdom's only mixed gauge flat rail crossing. The restoration, which had the civil engineering mainly built by contractors and the track mainly built by volunteers, received a number of awards. Originally running from Dinas near Caernarfon to Porthmadog, the current line includes an additional section from Dinas to Caernarfon. The original line also had a branch to Bryngwyn and the slate quarries at Moel Tryfan, which has not been restored. (This branch forms a footpath "rail trail", the lower section of which has been resurfaced and supplied with heritage notice-boards). There is also the long Welsh Highland Heritage Railway which runs from Porthmadog along the trackbed of the former Cambrian Railways exchange siding and connects to the WHR main line at Pen-y-Mount junction.
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