It was the world's first passenger-carrying narrow gauge railway, provided the inspiration for Thomas the Tank Engine and, this weekend, the Talyllyn Railway celebrates its 150th birthday.

The Reverend Wilbert Awdry based his stories on experiences as a volunteer at Talyllyn Railway, in the 1950s. A new exhibition includes the model railway on which he based his stories. This year ...

A Welsh railway immortalised by Thomas The Tank Engine's creator "would get more generous Covid financial help if it was in England", its boss has said. The Talyllyn Railway, where The Rev W Awdry ...

Douglas, or loco No 6, has hauled passenger services on the Talyllyn Railway since and has also portrayed a popular children’s character. But the loco started life working at the then Admiralty ...

Carriage No.24 was built by the neighbouring Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railway’s Boston Lodge works, funded by a grant from the Welsh Government’s Coastal Communities Fund and Talyllyn ...

The Talyllyn Railway in Gwynedd is regarded as the first railway in the world to be saved from closure by enthusiasts. But managers say that even heritage steam railways are finding it tough in ...

John Snell was a heritage railway enthusiast who left BR to run small gauge steam lines such as the Talyllyn and RH&DR John Snell back on the footplate at the Talyllyn after 60 years in 2011 ...

When Thomas Curtis started volunteering on the Talyllyn Railway last summer he continued in a fine family tradition of involvement with the railway, which stretches back over one hundred years.

An appeal to help the world's oldest preserved railway through the coronavirus pandemic has raised £75,000. Talyllyn Railway opened in 1865 to carry passengers from Tywyn, on the edge of ...