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 Y...
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original connection between the quarry and the company's port at Y Felinheli was the Dinorwic Railway, a 2 ft (610 mm) gauge line built in 1824. This was worked...
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miles (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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line 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...
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in 1852 as far as Port Dinorwic (now Y Felinheli) and was extended to Caernarfon later in the same year. At first Carnarvon station was a terminus, but...
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Railway (SMR; Welsh: Rheilffordd yr Wyddfa) is a narrow gauge rack-and-pinion mountain railway in Gwynedd, north-west Wales. It is a tourist railway that...
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Crossing railway station was a former railway station located on the Bangor and Carnarvon Railway about a mile and a half south west of Port Dinorwic (now...
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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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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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Anglesey Central Railway (Welsh: Lein Amlwch, Amlwch Line) was a 17.5-mile (28.2 km) standard-gauge railway in Anglesey, Wales, connecting the port of Amlwch...
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Heart of Wales line (redirect from Heart of Wales Railway Line)
the sea wall to Swansea Bay station, (near the former slip bridge) before finally reaching Swansea Victoria railway station. This section, originally built...
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landowners to purchase the land necessary to build a railway towards Tywyn and onwards to the port of Aberdyfi. Construction was well underway by July...
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coast, alongside the beach to the end of a peninsula at Barmouth Ferry railway station, where there is a connection with the Barmouth Ferry across the Mawddach...
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the railway's alignment at Beddgelert, a new station site in Porthmadog and a link to the Festiniog Railway. McAlpine & Sons were contracted to refurbish...
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which was re-opened fully in 2011. The two railways share the same track gauge and meet at Porthmadog station, with occasional trains working the entire...
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the Cambrian Railways the line was grouped into the Great Western Railway (GWR). A new station opened next to main standard gauge station in Aberystwyth...
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the Festiniog Railway's (FR) second passenger station in Blaenau Ffestiniog, then in Merionethshire, now in Gwynedd, Wales. This station is not to be confused...
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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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The Bala and Festiniog Railway was a 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm), standard gauge, railway backed by the Great Western Railway (GWR) in north-west Wales....
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Wharf Ransome's Wharf Norway Wharf Clarence Wharf (Rotherhithe Tunnel) Dinorwic Wharf Surrey Commercial Docks Surrey Commercial Wharf Bull Head Wharf King...
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originally operated by the Cambrian Railways, connecting with it at the former Oswestry and Newtown Railway station in the town of Welshpool. The line...
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Mawddwy Railway at Cemmes Road railway station Van Railway at Caersws The headquarters of the Cambrian Railways was at Oswestry railway station in Shropshire...
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The Swansea and Mumbles Railway was the venue for the world's first passenger horsecar railway service, located in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom. Originally...
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The Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway (BP&GVR) was a mineral railway company that constructed a railway line in Carmarthenshire, Wales, by conversion...
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The Corris Railway (Welsh: Rheilffordd Corris) is a narrow gauge preserved railway based in Corris on the border between Merionethshire (now Gwynedd)...
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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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The horse-drawn Ffestiniog Railway opened in 1836 to connect the slate quarries at Blaenau Ffestiniog with the coastal port of Porthmadog. The traffic...
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Bala Junction railway station was on the Ruabon to Barmouth line in southern Gwynedd, Wales. It closed to passengers on Monday 18 January 1965. Bala Junction...
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Caernarvon railway station was a station on the former Bangor and Carnarvon Railway between Caernarfon, Gwynedd and Menai Suspension Bridge near Bangor...
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