Porthmadog & the Cob — Ffestiniog Railway live cameras

The Ffestiniog Railway describes itself as "the world's oldest narrow gauge railway with almost 200 years of history", running a "13½-mile journey from the harbour in Porthmadog to the slate-quarrying town of Blaenau Ffestiniog" on which trains "climb over 700 feet from sea level into the mountains". A UK government consultation on the Festiniog Railway Company puts a figure on the track it runs on: "narrow-gauge (1ft (one foot) 11.5in (11.5 inches), 597mm (597 millimetres))", across a Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland network of "a combined length of 40 miles (67 kilometres)". Four cameras are published, all four on the Ffestiniog line rather than the Welsh Highland. The default view is Harbour Station at Porthmadog, whose stream is titled "FR-The Cob - Porthmadog" — the Cob being the mile-long embankment across the Glaslyn estuary that carries the railway out of town. A second camera, labelled Pen Cob, streams as "FR- Boston Lodge view of the Cob" and looks back along the same embankment from the Boston Lodge end, where the railway's own works build and rebuild its locomotives. The third watches Minffordd, the interchange with the Cambrian Coast main line, and the fourth Tan y Bwlch, the passing station roughly halfway up the climb. The cameras are a two-party arrangement, and the page says so plainly: the Festiniog Railway Company hosts and publishes them, thanking "its supporting societies, the Ffestiniog Railway Society and Cymdeithas Rheilffordd Eryri", while a line at the foot of the page credits "Streaming provided by Railcam UK". Railcam UK Ltd is a company limited by guarantee that "relies on the efforts of a team of volunteers". The railway adds its own caveat: "Please note that one or all of these cameras may occasionally be unavailable due to technical issues." What runs past the lens is a working steam fleet with names rather than numbers. The Ffestiniog Railway Society lists the line's Double Fairlies — Merddin Emrys, built at Boston Lodge in 1879, Earl of Merioneth of 1979 and David Lloyd George of 1992 — alongside the surviving George England engines Prince (1863), Palmerston (1864) and Welsh Pony (1867), the single Fairlie Taliesin of 1999, and the 1893 Hunslet pair Linda and Blanche.