The Dinorwic Railway was an early 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge industrial railway connecting the slate quarry at Dinorwic in Caernarvonshire with the coastal...
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Dinorwic quarry (/dɪˈnɔːrwɪɡ/ din-OR-wig; Welsh: [dɪˈnɔrwɪɡ]; also known as Dinorwig quarry) is a large former slate quarry, now home to the Welsh National...
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(11 km) from Dinorwic Quarry to Port Dinorwic. The line opened on 3 March 1843, replacing the Dinorwic Railway. It initially used horses, but was converted...
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Y Felinheli (redirect from Port Dinorwic)
Y Felinheli (Welsh pronunciation), formerly known in English as Port Dinorwic, is a village and community beside the Menai Strait (Welsh: Y Fenai or Afon...
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Dinorwig Power Station (redirect from Dinorwic Power Station)
Wales Hydro Electric Power Act 1973. It was constructed in the abandoned Dinorwic slate quarry. To preserve the natural beauty of Snowdonia National Park...
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which connected the quarry with Y Felinheli (Port Dinorwic) on the Menai Strait. The Padarn Railway closed in October 1961 and was lifted between 16 May...
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Port Dinorwic railway station was the name of two railway stations located on the Bangor and Carnarvon Railway near the village of Port Dinorwic (now...
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system Steep grade railway Carrington D.C. and Rushworth T.F. (1972). Slates to Velinheli: The Railways and Tramways of Dinorwic Slate Quarries, Llanberis...
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The Dinorwic Alice Class is a class of eleven narrow-gauge 0-4-0ST steam locomotives built specifically for the Dinorwic quarry. These locomotives were...
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slate. The Dinorwic Railway connected to it, superseded from 1843 by the Padarn Railway. The Bangor and Carnarvon Railway reached Port Dinorwic on 1 March...
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Gilfach Ddu (redirect from Dinorwic Slate Quarry Workshops)
known as the Dinorwic Slate Quarry Workshops) are a series of well preserved Grade I listed industrial buildings built to serve the Dinorwic slate quarry...
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Fire Queen (category 4 ft gauge railways in Wales)
built for the Padarn Railway, which connected the Dinorwic Quarry near Llanberis in north Wales with the port at Y Felinheli. The railway was opened in 1840...
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Caernarvonshire, Volume 3: The Dinorwic Quarry and Railways, Great Orme Tramway and Other Rail Systems. The British Narrow Gauge Railway. Usk: The Oakwood Press...
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upper levels of Dinorwic. Alice's boiler was retained at the WLLR and the rest sold to the Bala Lake Railway. Over the next decade the railway re-assembled...
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is provided. Dinorwic is named after Dinorwic Quarry, a slate quarry in Wales, UK. Dinorwic was founded when the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) was built...
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Boyd, James I. C. (1986). Narrow Gauge Railways in North Caernarvonshire, Volume 3: The Dinorwic Quarry and Railways, Great Orme Tramway and Other Rail Systems...
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narrow-gauge railways in the United Kingdom. Trains portal British narrow-gauge railways The Great Little Trains of Wales Heritage railway 2 ft gauge railroads...
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constructed its first narrow gauge engine Dinorwic, a diminutive 1 ft 10+3⁄4 in (578 mm) gauge 0-4-0ST for the Dinorwic Slate Quarry at Llanberis. This engine...
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1790[citation needed] and given to the Trust in 1964. Dinorwic Quarry Railway (Padarn Railway), 4 ft (1,219 mm) gauge host wagon built 1848 to carry...
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Penrhyn Port Class (category Railway locomotives introduced in 1883)
variant of the standard Dinorwic Alice Class design. The three locomotives of this class were ordered by the Penrhyn Quarry Railway to replace two vertical...
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The Clarbeston Road and Letterston Railway was a small railway company formed to give the Great Western Railway a more direct route to the port at Fishguard...
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Holyhead Railway from the time of opening, the C&HR in turn being worked by the LNWR. Freight and passenger traffic between Bangor and Port Dinorwic commenced...
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Company of Leeds, with works number 779. Holy War was delivered to the Dinorwic quarry in North Wales in May 1902. It spent its whole working life in the...
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industrial settlement. The plan was dictated by the line of the 1825 Dinorwic Railway. After the 1860s, few new buildings were erected until social housing...
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List of preserved Hunslet narrow-gauge locomotives (category Lists of locomotives and rolling stock preserved on heritage railways in England)
heritage railways in the UK. "Penrhyn Castle Railway Museum". The National Trust. "Gwynedd image". Bressingham Steam Museum. "Launceston Steam Railway". Launceston...
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(1,219 mm) narrow gauge (that of the Padarn Railway which carried the slate from the quarry to Port Dinorwic). Rails also entered the main yard through...
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was established in 1965 by a group of railway enthusiasts seeking to preserve a working locomotive from the Dinorwic Slate Quarry. The Quarry Manager recommended...
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Caernarvonshire, Volume 3: The Dinorwic Quarry and Railways, Great Orme Tramway and Other Rail Systems. The British Narrow Gauge Railway. Usk: The Oakwood Press...
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and Sybil built by W.G. Bagnall in 1906, both previously in use at the Dinorwic Quarry. There was also a diesel locomotive built by Motor Rail and a passenger...
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events in British railway history happened on narrow-gauge railways including the first use of steam locomotives, the first public railway and the first preserved...
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