• Little Ormes Head Quarry tramway was a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge industrial railway operating at three levels within the extensive limestone quarry on...
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    where the Little Ormes Head Quarry tramway was situated. It was centred on Porth Dyniewyd and served by its own narrow gauge railway, but quarrying ceased...
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    One explanation is that the Great Orme is the head, with its body being the land between the Great and Little Ormes, whilst another, possibly more likely...
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    in North Caernarvonshire: Volume Three The Dinorwic Quarry and Railways, The Great Orme Tramways and Other Rail Systems. The Oakwood Press. ISBN 0-85361-328-1...
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    Publishing. ISBN 1-870-754-085. Quine, Dan (2016). Four East Midlands Ironstone Tramways Part Two: Kettering. Vol. 106. Garndolbenmaen: Narrow Gauge and Industrial...
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    185; -3.844 The Eigiau Tramway might refer to the Eigiau Quarry Tramway or to the Eigiau Reservoir Tramway. The Eigiau Quarry Tramway was a 2 ft (610 mm)...
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  • site Crewe Heritage Centre, Crewe, Cheshire Head of Steam, Darlington, County Durham Heaton Park Tramway Museum, Manchester, Greater Manchester Leeds...
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    This was to become the Lee Moor Tramway, from Lee Moor to join the P&DR line near Plym Bridge (on the Cann Quarry branch, not the P&DR main line), a...
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    perimeter of the Great Orme was a footpath constructed in 1858 by Reginald Cust, a trustee of the Mostyn Estate. In 1872 the Great Ormes Head Marine Drive Co...
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    offences. Little Langdale was the filming location for the 2012 movie Snow White and the Huntsman. Little Langdale has been heavily mined and quarried over...
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  • Hendre-Ddu Tramway Kerry Tramway Little Ormes Head Quarry tramway Merionethshire Railway Morda Tramway Nantlle Tramway Padarn Railway Penrhyn Quarry Railway...
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    The Giant's Causeway Tramway, operated by the Giant's Causeway, Portrush and Bush Valley Railway & Tramway Company Ltd, was a pioneering 3 ft (914 mm)...
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    Originally built under an act of Parliament of 1804 to move limestone from the quarries of Mumbles to Swansea and to the markets beyond, it carried the world's...
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    promenade, its beach, the Alice in Wonderland trail, the Great Orme, its cablecar and its tramway. Dolgellau – a town located close to Cadair Idris mountain...
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    wagonways and tramways existed in a number of areas. Ralph Allen, for example, constructed a tramway to transport stone from a local quarry to supply the...
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    was boosted with the opening of the canal tramway by around £600 per annum with goods from Merstham quarry transported to the canal via the Croydon Merstham...
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  • is first made public. The Swansea Improvements and Tramway Company SITC) opens a street tramway from Gower Street, Swansea, to join up with the Oystermouth...
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    First cricket matches in The Parks are played. 1 December: City of Oxford Tramways Company opens its first route. City of Oxford High School for Boys opened...
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    1832 a quay 130 by 26 feet (39.6 by 7.9 metres) was constructed, and a tramway (referred to as a "railroad") was constructed alongside it. William Hodge...
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    Sciences, and Literature. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown. "Hud's Head Quarry (Pier Quarry)". Mindat. Hudson Institute of Mineralogy. Retrieved...
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    became a second room of Le Trident (theatre)), and the Saint-Joseph (Rue des Ormes), etc. Le p'tit Parigot (1926), by René Le Somptier La Marie du port (1950)...
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    (14 km) north-east of the city, turned their attention to wagonways and tramways as a solution to their transport problem. Numerous schemes were put forward...
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  • 06255g. Cadw SAM: MM199 Tramway Embankment of Grosmont Railway. coflein NPRN: 34971. GGAT PRN: 00201g. Cadw SAM: MM288 Blorenge Quarries Tramroad. coflein NPRN:...
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  • United Provinces. Finlay Shaw, Workshop Engineer, The Madras Electric Tramway Co. Ltd., and lately Honorary Rescue Officer, ARP, Madras. Sadanand Waman...
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  • and there were numerous other coal pits, iron ore deposits and stone quarries in the area. Primitive tramroads had been made in many locations in the...
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