The Welshpool & llanfair Light Railway (W&LLR) is a narrow gauge heritage railway in western Wales.
The line is around 8,5 miles (14 km) long and travels between the towns of Welshpool and Llanfair Caereinion. The track gauge is 2ft 6in (80cm).
The W&LLR was one of the few narrow gauge branch lines to be built in Britain under the provisions of the 1896 Light Railways Act. It was opened in 1903 to aid economic development in a remote area, the line never made a profit.
In the 1923 grouping of railway companies the line was taken over by the Great Western Railway. In 1931 the line lost its passenger service which was replaced by a bus service, and it became a freight only line. The W&LLR was then nationalised in 1948.
Freight traffic lingered on until 1956, by which time British Rail decided to close the line down.
A group of voulenteers and enthusiasts, took the line over and started raising money to restore it. In 1963 the line was re-opened as a tourist railway. And has functioned as such ever since.
