in that area is railway works and storage buildings. Below the railway is the A487 road and in front of that is the 1836 tollgate cottage. Prior to the coming of the Ffestiniog Railway, the road was on the top of the embankment, but in 1836 the present carriageway was constructed on the landward side at the lower level. This lower road was less than wide and quite narrow for a major road. In 2002 it was widened to over with, in addition, a separate cycleway and footpath on the landward side. Toll road From its construction in 1811, a toll was levied on users of the embankment. Subsequent to the construction of the Ffestiniog Railway, a new toll road and toll house was built on the landward side adjacent to the embankment but at a lower level. For motor cars, for many years, the toll was a modest one shilling per day (regardless of how many times the vehicle used the road). After the introduction of decimal currency in 1971 the toll became five pence. In the late 1970s the ownership of the tollgate and its cottage was acquired by a specially established local charitable trust called "The Rebecca Trust", which continued to levy the same toll and distributed its profits to local charities. At 3:00pm on Saturday 29 March 2003, the tollgate and its cottage having been bought from the Rebecca Trustees by the Welsh Assembly Government, the toll (still just five pence per day) ceased to be levied. Locomotives A number of locomotives have been built for the Ffestiniog Railway at Boston Lodge works References Further reading External links The Ffestiniog Railway Company's website Buildings and structures in Gwynedd Coast of Gwynedd Transport in Gwynedd Ffestiniog Railway Locomotive manufacturers of the United Kingdom Railway workshops in Great Britain Railway depots in Wales Penrhyndeudraeth