The Welsh Highland Railway Society (Welsh: Cymdeithas Rheilfordd Eryri) was founded in 1992 as a supporting society for the rebuilding of the Welsh Highland Railway which originally ran from Dinas, near Caernarfon, past the foot of Snowdon and through the village of Beddgelert to Porthmadog. The railway has history dating back to 1825 and was operated in sections until opened throughout in 1923. Unfortunately the railway was not profitable and closed in 1937.
The Ffestiniog Railway Company, who operated the line in the 1930s, began the journey to preserve the railway in the 1990s with the section between Caernarfon and Dinas opening in 1997. A painstaking effort to rebuild the railway through the rugged scenery of Snowdonia opened the line section-by-section until finally completed in 2011 creating the UK’s longest heritage railway at 25 miles in length, and one of the best known railway journeys in the world. The Society has been pivotal in helping to bring this dream alive.
Previous Society projects
Construction funded of four ‘Standard Class’ saloon carriages
The Society supports the railway in a number of ways including fundraising, volunteer recruitment, and promotion of the railway, its heritage and role as a major tourist attraction. CRhE even owns a property, Station View, to provide accommodation for volunteers whilst they’re working on the railway.
The Society aims:
“To encourage and to promote public interest in the Caernarfon to Porthmadog Railway (including the former Welsh Highland Railway) generally and in its history, restoration, operation, railway locomotives and rolling stock, machinery and equipment of historical and general interest relating thereto.”
The Society is governed by an elected Board of Directors who are responsible for the strategic governance of the Society inline with its charitable objectives.
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