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Castell Caernarfon (English: Caernarfon Castle) is a large diesel locomotive in use on the Welsh Highland Railway. It is one of two 'Funkeys' purchased in the mid 1990s to augment the Ffestiniog fleet and prepare for the expansion coming with the rebuilt Welsh Highland Railway. The other locomotive is Vale of Ffestiniog, which received a heavy rebuild to fit the FR loading gauge.

Unlike the railway's other "castle" locomotives, this vehicle is named in Welsh only, after Caernarfon Castle which is in view of the WHR station in that town.

It arrived at the FR on 16 October 1993, as one of three engines purchased from Pretoria Portland Cement Ltd. The second locomotive of the same type became Vale of Ffestiniog on the Ffestiniog Railway. The third locomotive was Hunslet Taylor 6357, which never left South Africa.

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