Compiled by Peter Johnson
The Ffestiniog Railway has been the subject of many publications, covering subjects as varied as the line's beginnings, the locomotives and rolling stock, and more recent titles detailing the preservation efforts. The following list attempts to cover all the major publications about the Railway.
Beazley, Elisabeth; Madocks and the Wonder of Wales; Faber & Faber, 1967
Blenkinsop, Dick; Linda and Blanche - Penrhyn to Festiniog; AB Publishing, 1993
Boyd, J. I. C.; The Festiniog Railway; Oakwood Press, 1975 (2 vols)
Boyd, J. I. C.; Narrow Gauge Railways in South Caernarvonshire; Oakwood Press, 1988/9 (2 vols)
City Press Services; Blaenau Ffestiniog ... here we come!; City Press Services, (1978)
Festiniog Railway Co; Traveller's Guide; FR Co, 1996 edition
Garraway, A. G. W.; Garraway Father and Son; Middleton Press, 1985
Gurley, N. F.; Narrow Gauge Steam out of Portmadoc - 25 years of the Festiniog Railway; D. Bradford Barton, 1980
Harris, P.L.(Ed.); Festiniog Railway Heritage Group Album; Festiniog Railway Heritage Group, 1994
Hollingsworth, Brian; Festiniog Adventure - The Festiniog Railway's Deviation Project; David & Charles, 1981
Holliday & Edwards Ltd; Croeso i Rheilffordd Festiniog/Welcome to the Festiniog Railway; Holliday & Edwards Ltd, 1973
Jackson, Doug; Rheilffordd Ffestiniog Railway ... the first 150 years; FR Co, 1982
Johnson, A.R.; The Festiniog Railway 1954-1994: a bibliography; Welsh Library Association, 1994
Johnson, Peter; Festiniog 150 The History of the Ffestiniog Railway; Ian Allan, 1986
Johnson, Peter (Ed); Festiniog Railway Gravity Trains; Festiniog Railway Heritage Group, 1986
Johnson, Peter; Festiniog 150th Anniversary A Celebration; AB Publishing, 1987
Johnson, Peter; Festiniog Railway – a view from the past; Ian Allan, 1997
Johnson, Peter; Festiniog Railway Picture Postcards; unpublished MS, 1989-2001
Johnson, Peter; Portrait of the Festiniog; Ian Allan, 1992
Johnson, Peter & Whitehouse, Michael; Festiniog in colour; Ian Allan, 1995
Lewis, M. J. T.; How Festiniog Got Its Railway; Railway & Canal Historical Society, 2nd edition 1968
Lewis, M. J. T.; Sails on the Dwyryd; Snowdonia National Park Study Centre, 1989
Mitchell, Vic & Garraway, Allan; Festiniog in the Fifties; Middleton Press, 1996
Mitchell, Vic & Smith, Keith; Branch lines around Portmadoc - the Welsh Highland and Festiniog Railways 1923-46; Middleton Press, 1993
Mitchell, Vic & Smith, Keith; Branch lines around Porthmadog - the Welsh Highland and Festiniog Railways 1954-94; Middleton Press, 1994
Mitchell, Vic & Smith, Keith; Forty years of Festiniog Railway progress - Porthmadog to Blaenau; Middleton Press, 1995
Pollock, D.; Preserved Railways - how to keep them going; presented at the ordinary meeting of the Railway Division, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 4 November 1991
Price, W.T.R.; The Photographer in Rural Wales; The Powysland Club, 1991
'Taliesin'; Festiniog Railway Locomotives; AB Publishing, 1988
Stretton, John; Festiniog Railway in Camera – One hundred years 1871-1971; Challenger Publications, 1999
Stretton, John; The Festiniog and Welsh Highland Railways; Past & Present Publishing, 1996
Vignes, Edouard (English translation by D. A. Boreham); A Technical Study of the Festiniog & Other Narrow-Gauge Railways 1878; P. E. Waters & Associates, 1986
Weaver, Rodney; 'Double Fairlie Celebration'; Railway World, January 1980
Whitehouse, P. B.; Festiniog Railway Revival; Ian Allan, 1963
Winton, John; The Little Wonder - The Story of the Festiniog Railway; Michael Joseph, revised edition, 1986
Woollen, Hilary & Crawford, Alistair; John Thomas 1838-1905 Photographer; Gomer Press, 1977
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