Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway

The Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway is a mid-Wales 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow-gauge railway opened on 4 April 1903 between Welshpool and Llanfair Caereinion (about 9 miles). It was authorised under the Light Railways Act 1896 and built to provide rail access to the rural Banwy valley at minimum cost.

The line was always operationally part of the Cambrian Railways (and from 1923 the GWR, then BR Western Region from 1948). Passenger services ended in 1931; the line continued as a freight-only operation until BR closure on 5 November 1956.

Reopened as a heritage railway from 1963, the first British narrow-gauge railway to be preserved by volunteers, the W&L operates today between Welshpool's Raven Square station and Llanfair Caereinion using its original two locomotives The Earl and The Countess (built by Beyer Peacock 1902) and a varied collection of imported overseas narrow-gauge stock.