Conway Valley Light Railway

Between the 1850’s and 1910’s there were plans to build a railway from Conway along the Vale of Gyffin, then via Dolgarrog and Trefriw on the western side of the Conway Valley to Llanrwst. The only outcome was a short light railway build to service the Aluminium plant at Dolgarrog. I have rewritten history with the proposal in 1908 of the 10.5 mile long Abbey, Dolgarrog & Trefriw Light Railway approved in 1910 by the Dolgarrog Light Railway Order coming to fruition and like the North Sunderland Railway being neither grouped (1923) nor nationalized (1948). Like the North Sunderland Railway the Conway Valley Light Railway keeps going because of the support of its 'big brother' the London Midland & Scottish Railway 1923-48 and British Railway, London Midland Region post 1948.