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Boston Lodge the Ffestiniog Railway's main engineering workshops, locomotive shed, and carriage works located across The Cob causeway from the line's main station Porthmadog Harbour. In Gwynedd, North Wales.

Construction of the causeway linking Penrhyn Isa and what is now Porthmadog started in 1807. The site at Boston Lodge first held barracks for many of the 150 men working from the Merioneth side on the embankment construction, together with stables and smithies for the horses and wagons used to carry the stone. Later with the coming of the horsedrawn Festiniog Railway, the stables and smithies were brought back into use from 1836.

From 1847 the works was considerably developed by the construction of ferrous and non-ferrous foundries, a pattern making shop, a blacksmith's shop, a carpenter's shop, and an engine house in which a steam engine provided power for machinery in a sawmill, pattern shop and machine shops. In the 1870s further construction provided a paint shop, joiner's shop and erecting shop.

During World War I most of the works was used as a munitions factory (largely staffed by women) from 17 September 1915 until early in 1919. The fortunes of the railway and its works declined from the mid-1920s with total closure from March 1947 to September 1954.

The works reopened in 1954, since when many of the original buildings have been extensively repaired and their usage altered. The works undertakes the restoration and preservation of the railway's historic locomotives, carriages, wagons, and features of all descriptions. It also builds new steam locomotives and passenger carriages and undertakes the ongoing maintenance of the Ffestiniog Railway's expanding fleet of railway vehicles.

In 1998 a Heritage Lottery Fund Grant was awarded to the Railway Trust, and this provided, amongst other things, for the construction of an extension to the carriage workshop at Boston Lodge to form a ‘Heritage Centre’ that would be a permanent home for the restoration of historic vehicles.

Information Source:
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Taken in: UK / Wales / Penrhyndeudraeth / Portmeirion (show map)

Taken on: April 21, 2014

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