FFESTINIOG RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES Steam History NEW Manufacture Operation Photos

This new study of the Ffestiniog Railway\u2019s locomotives takes advantage of on-line newspaper records and the recent cataloguing of the Ffestiniog\u2019s own archives to produce an authoritative record of not only the technical evolution of the engines but also the lives and interactions of the colourful characters involved with them.Access to the railway\u2019s vast collection of photographs, documents, letters and drawings has enabled a highly detailed picture of the history to be drawn. Many of these records are included in the text to help tell the locomotives\u2019 story and that of the social history surrounding their evolution and operation. Covered for the first time is the \u2018business networking\u2019 of Victorian railway engineers and its role in the development of the locomotives and their influence on many other lines worldwide. Archive research has also been used to shed light on the lives of those who worked on the footplate. The railway was extensively photograph.