A BRAND new luxury train worth over half a million pounds was unveiled in Porthmadog by the Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railway.

On Thursday, Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railway celebrated their new train with a trip from Tan y Bwlch to Beddgelert and back for VIPs including Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas AM, Baron Dafydd Wigley, the High Sherriff and Lord Lieutenant of Gwynedd and Gwynedd county councillors.

With the opening of the Welsh Highland Railway throughout in 2011, it became clear that the new WHR stock rather outshone the carriages of its older sister.

But in 2016, all that is set to change.

The Ffestiniog will not simply get a new carriage or two it will get an entire new train, with a specification matching or even exceeding that of the Welsh Highland stock.

See the full story in this week’s Arfon/Dwyfor edition of the Cambrian News