Little Giants: A History of the Ffestiniog Railway's Pre-Revival Locomotives

This new study of the Ffestiniog Railway's locomotives takes advantage of on-line newspaper records and the recent cataloguing of the Ffestiniog's 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's vast collection of photographs, documents, letters and drawings has enabled a highly detailed picture of the history to be drawn. The book covers the period of operation from the earliest horse-drawn days until temporary closure in 1946. This has been done in strictly chronological order, allowing the reader to see when and why key decisions were made. The railway's extensive locomotive maintenance records have been exploited to give a more detailed picture than has previously been published, illustrating the engines' development, operation and decline over the period.