The Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways is celebrating after being named the ‘Best Attraction in Wales’.

The accolade came at the National Tourism Awards for Wales that took place on the 27th of March at Venue Cymru in Llandudno, where the Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways received the Best Attraction award.

Visit Wales hosted the event, which celebrated the best of tourism attractions throughout the principality, and followed the railway’s success when it scooped the Go Attraction of the Year at the Regional Go North Wales Tourism Awards held in November 2024.

Its success at those awards qualified it as an entrant in the National Tourism Awards for Wales.

Attending the award ceremony on behalf of the Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways and to collect the prestigious prize were General Manager, Paul Lewin, and the railway’s Visitor Experience Manager, Stephen Greig.

Two years ago, the Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railway was honoured by the Heritage Railway Association with the Peter Manisty Award for Excellence, its most prestigious award, for its rescue, restoration, and return to operational services of the railway’s unique gravity slate train.

That followed its receipt of The Hendy & Pendle Trust Volunteers Award at the 2020 National Railway Heritage Awards for its restoration of the Gweinthdy at Minffordd.