Venues

Shrewsbury - Swansea, LD1 6BG, Tel: 01554 820586, Email, www.heart-of-wales.co.uk

The Heart of Wales Railway Line runs for 120 scenic miles from Swansea to Shrewsbury. Hop aboard the little train and relax as it takes you on a railway journey though a land of lush rolling hills and crystal clear mountain streams.

Carmarthenshire, SA18 3EP, Tel: 01554 777744, Email

Ammanford, the third largest town in the county of Carmarthenshire in South West Wales, is predominately a shopping area and tourism town for many villages in the neighbouring areas.

Barry Island Station, Barry, South Glamorgan, CF62 5TH, Tel: 01446 747171, www.barrytouristrailway.co.uk

Barry Island Railway Heritage Centre provides a glimpse of the Age of Steam, with exhibits of memorobilia, and restored locomotives and rolling stock.

South East Wales, CF, Tel: 02920 873573, Email, www.visitsouthwales.com

Cardiff, is Europe’s youngest capital city and has been the capital city of Wales for around 50 years.

Forester's House, Llanvaches, Caldicot, Monmouthshire, GL15 4ET, Tel: 01594 845840, www.deanforestrailway.co.uk

The Dean Forest Railway is a 4.25 mile long heritage railway that runs between Lydney and Parkend in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. Trains are operated by both steam and heritage diesel locomotives, and heritage diesel multiple units.

Bronwydd Arms Station, Bronwydd, Carmarthen, SA33 6HT, Tel: 01267 238213, Email, www.gwili-railway.co.uk

Join the train at Bronwydd Arms Station and take a trip into the past, on a living and growing full-size steam railway. Enjoy the beautiful Gwili Valley, relax alongside the river for a picnic or walk the woodland walk.

Carmarthenshire, SA20 0UU, Tel: 01550 720693

Llanymddyffri, or Llandovery means ‘church among the waters. Surrounded by three rivers, the Towy, the Bran, and the Gwydderig, Llandovery is a market town with a population of just under 3000.

Powys, UK, Tel: 01874 622485, Email, www.llanwrtyd.com

Llanwrtyd Wells is the smallest town in Britain. It is also one of the friendliest, having a long history of catering for the many visitors who, today, come to enjoy the unspoilt beauty of the surrounding Cambrian Mountains.

Blaenavon, Pontypool, NP4 9ND, Tel: 01495 792263, Email, www.pontypool-and-blaenavon.co.uk

The line is the highest and steepest in the country, climbing through the Blaenavon World heritage site and the wild and dramatic moorland landscape under the brooding Coity mountain.

Henllan Station, Llandysul, Ceredigion, SA44 5TD, Tel: 01559 371077, www.teifivalleyrailway.org

Journey through lovely countryside, as you pass ancient stone workings, over the long forgotten drovers bridge and along the banks of the river Teifi.