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The 'lost' Fairlie rides again!

IT was a sight that until a few years ago nobody thought would ever be repeated – a double Fairlie named James Spooner running out of Porthmadog.

However, on October 6, and seven years after the project was announced in March 2016, it became a reality once more when the Ffestiniog Railway’s replacement (aka‘The Square’) made its debut as part of the annual BygonesWeekend.

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