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There have been two four wheel carriage trucks on the Ffestiniog Railway. The first was built in 1884 and later scrapped, whilst the second is a replica of that original vehicle completed in 2024.

In 1884 Boston Lodge built a carriage truck at a cost of £18 10s (£18.50). Similar vehicles had been used by main line railways from the very earliest days when the gentry would have their favourite horse-drawn vehicle loaded, and then used it to travel in for their journey. It probably has some bearing on the use of carriage/coach as the terminology for passenger carrying railway vehicles.

In early 2018 plans were drawn up to make a replica of the carriage truck. The replica was launched at the 2024 Bygones Weekend, where it ran loaded with a carriage of the type likely to have been carried by the original.

Photo credit: Ed Heaps

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