Conwy Valley Railway Museum


The Conwy Valley Railway Museum is located at Betws-y-Coed railway station, Betws-y-Coed, North Wales, on the site of the old railway goods yard.

Museum

The museum was founded in the early 1970s by Alan Pratt, starting with a former standard gauge railway carriage which today acts as a licensed Buffet & Restaurant car. The current museum was built later, and contains various railway artefacts, including a gauge quarter scale replica of a Britannia class locomotive.

Miniature railway

Other attractions include a gauge miniature steam railway which runs for on the site.

Tramway

There is also a one-third full-size electric tramcar which runs for a on the site, on track of gauge. This is one of only two electric tramways in Wales.