The GLTW railways are joining together to welcome Wales’ most-loved locomotive and The Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company Limited with open arms as their official thirteenth member. #IvortheEngine
Wales on Rails competition for Community Rail Week 2024 #WalesOnRails or #CledrauCymru, 20 May to 30 June 2024 walesgoldenphoto2024 Image Steve Towns @sjtown.
06/10/23 to 08/10/2023, visit the Bygones Weekend at Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railways, a festival of vintage trains and stock. With a full and interesting timetable including passenger, gravity, slate and freight trains.
Offer closed 23/04/2023.
Each Gold Card costs £175, now discounted to £152 (23 March 2023 to 23 April 2023). Every card is valid for 12 months from the date your first journey.
Offer closed 23/02/2023.
Celebrate Love in Wales with our 2 for 1 Discount Card offer #Love2for1.
Pay for 1 Discount Card, £20, and you will be posted 2 cards, 25 January to 22 February 2023.
Our sister project, Wales on Rails, is a finalist in the Go North Wales, for a Go Responsible and Sustainable Green Award. The Talyllyn Railway and The Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railways are also finalists.
Full steam ahead for our partnership project ‘Wales on Rails’, supported by Transport for Wales and the Community Rail Partnerships in Wales and the borders. We WON a tourism and leisure award.
Wales on Rails at the Community Rail Awards 2022. Wales on Rails is a sustainable pan-Wales tourism project, led by Great Little Trains of Wales.
https://walesonrails.co.uk/
Declared by Which, Europe’s most picturesque lines...Top 10
*1* Ffestiniog Railway, Wales
*6* Talyllyn, Wales
*7* Welsh Highland Railway, Wales
Tickets for the highly anticipated Welsh Highland Railway Centenary event weekend at Dinas, 30-31 July 2022, are now on sale. Details and tickets here; festrail.co.uk/welsh-highland-railway-centenary
Vaughan Gething MS: Minister for Economy, is launched our new sister project walesonrails.co.uk, Promoting tourism by using public transport throughout Wales, 10 March, at Cardiff Central Station.
Please note: Our prices have now increased.
Have a happy Saint Dwynwen Day and buy our Discount Card at £15 or our Gold Card at £150 before the prices rise for the 2022 season.
We are welcoming a new member to the ‘Great Little Trains of Wales’ group, with the Corris Railway joining us. Making the GLTW’s Discount and Gold cards even better value and a must have for anyone intending to visit multiple railways during the year.
We are working on a new travel website 'Wales on Rails'. The aim of the project is to promote tourism by using public transport throughout Wales. Encouraging safe, sustainable, and scenic adventures. http://walesonrails.co.uk/
Due to COVID our railways are now starting to open for the summer season. Visit Wales is asking all tourists to ‘Make your promise to Wales’ and Visit Wales Safely. Not all railways are open, please check details and restricitons.
We have our lovely new Gold Cards in stock. A perfect way to way to help little railways of Wales, buy a card, £150. All new Gold Cards now valid to 31 December 2021.
As visitors stay away from Wales and tourist attractions close the narrow-gauge railways of Wales are joining together to support their staff, volunteers and the future of the railways.
Heritage Great Britain invests £1.1million in new ‘Greener’ Hybrid Diesel locomotives for Snowdon Mountain Railway, the popular North Wales tourist attraction.
We are creating a new travel website. Working with Transport for Wales and the Community Rail Partnership Officers, we have a question to ask you...
Our members run amazing special steam railway events. There is lots to enjoy and experience in 2020.
The Narrow Gauge Railway Museum is pleased to announce the appointment of Bob Gwynne as its Museum Mentor. The museum is currently housed at Wharf Station Tywyn on the Talyllyn Railway.
After an extensive programme of refurbishment and general overhaul, Talyllyn Railway Loco No. 7 has now been returned to service in top condition.
Snowdon Mountain Railway has begun a programme of replacement for its existing diesel locomotives which began service in 1985.
In December our great little railways offer a special Christmas experience with their Special Santa Trains. These trains are very popular so pre-booking is essential.