Latest News
Royal Mail launch set of Railway Stamps at Conwy Valley Railway Museum!
Royal Mail launched a new set of Railway Stamps at Conwy Valley Railway Museum on Thursday, 19th August, 2010. The stamps will show main-line steam engines. A member of the Criccieth Philatelic Society brought along his grand-children for the photo call and Colin Cartwright (owner) was photographed with Douglas, together with an enlargement of one of the stamps.
Model Village
We now have a Model Village which can be seen near the castle when going on the train ride.
Leyland Model Engineers visit
Leyland Model Engineers visited us on Saturday, 10th July, 2010 and brought along a few of their locos which enabled us to run an intensive passenger service and some special goods trains.
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Michael Portillo and the BBC visit Conwy Valley Railway Museum
We had a great Spring Bank Holiday week with lots of visitors enjoying the nice weather and a ride on the trains. Our good friends Steve and George came with their Denver loco 'Gunnison'. On the Sunday we had three steam locos pulling our trains - 'Gunnison', 'Old Rube' and 'Douglas', together with 'Gwydr Castle' on standby.
On Tuesday, 1st June, 2010 we were very excited when Michael Portillo and a BBC film crew visited to film for the new series of 'Great British Railway Journeys'. They interviewed Colin Cartwright and took lots of shots of the train and the museum. We now eagerly await January 2011 when the results will be broadcast!
On Thursday, 3rd June, 2010 we ran a goods train with 'Gwydr Castle' as well as double-heading the steam trains. The GP40 was also used to feature an All-American Day.
We have also completely restructed the pool and will be completing the landscaping in the near future.
The photos below give an idea of what a fantastic and exciting week it was!......
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Visiting C19 Denver Loco
On the May Day Bank Holiday weekend we had a visting loco, owned by Bob & Tricia Whitfield, which meant we were able to run double-headed C19 Denver locos - the photos below show what fun was had by both children and adults!.....
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New Website Launched - October 2009
We are pleased to launch our brand new website which was very much in need of an overhaul and which had been virtually non-existant for the last few months. We hope that it will now give you an insight as to just how much there is to see and do at Conwy Valley Railway Museum & Model Shop and that all ages are catered for. You can even travel to our door by train as we are right at the side of Betws-Y-Coed Railway Station in the Old Goods Yard! To plan your journey check on networkrail.com.
We shall be adding more information to some of our pages and will be adding stock on the Model Shop page so please keep checking for updates.
