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125 YEARS OF NARROW GAUGE HUNSLET LOCOS CELEBRATED

THE Ffestiniog Railway held a Hunslet 100 gala in 1993 that is still revered as a landmark narrow gauge event. Twenty-five years on and the formula was not merely repeated, but dramatically expanded. Hunslet 125, staged over June 22-24 by what is now the Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railway (F&WHR), has reset the height of the bar.

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