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    Croesor quarry is a large underground slate mine in North Wales which was served by Croesor Tramway. Small scale quarrying began in the 1846, and by 1861...
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    they told together. Croesor Quarry Wikimedia Commons has media related to Croesor. History www.geograph.co.uk : photos of Croesor and surrounding area...
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    mid-1940s. Slate quarrying in the remote Cwm Croesor (Croesor valley) dates back to at least 1846 when the Croesor Quarry opened. Quarrying expanded in the...
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    patented by Moses Kellow and produced at Parc (this example is on the former toll house at Porthmadog, which became the offices for the Croesor quarry)...
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    Parc Quarry was a compact underground slate quarry in the Croesor Valley, Gwynedd, North Wales. It was connected to the Croesor Tramway, which ran through...
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  • line runs through. The Croesor Tramway was built to take slate traffic from the Croesor and New Rhosydd quarries. The Croesor tramway had run from Portmadoc...
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    these are lakes found in the slate mines at Blaenau Ffestiniog, such as Croesor quarry, and a lake in the Hallein Salt Mine in Austria. Craighead Caverns,...
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    Moelwyn Mawr, lies the Croesor Quarry, where extraction of slate ceased in 1930. Following the end of the Second World War, the quarry was operated by Cookes...
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    To the north is Croesor Quarry perched high above Cwm Croesor. To the north east is Rhosydd Quarry on the col between Cwm Croesor and Cwm Orthin. Within...
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    following proposed lines: To extend from a Junction with the Portmadoc, Croesor & Beddgelert Tram Railway Company's proposed line to Beddgelert, thence...
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    Fron-Boeth. Both quarries closed during the First World War. Finished product was transported to the slate quays of Porthmadog by the Croesor Tramway. Pant...
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    Cwmorthin quarry, through whose land the most obvious route to the Ffestiniog Railway ran. A solution was found in 1864, with the opening of the Croesor Tramway...
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  • nearly 500 feet (150 m). Croesor quarry built its own incline to connect to the top end of the tramway, as did Rhosydd quarry. Both descended by around...
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    tramway from quarries in Ffestiniog and Llanfrothen. The Ffestiniog Railway opened in 1836, followed by the Gorseddau Tramway in 1856 and the Croesor Tramway...
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  • research into development of nuclear weapons. Caverns at the disused Croesor Quarry are requisitioned by the Ministry of Supply for explosives storage....
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    Slate industry (redirect from Slate quarry)
    related to the extraction and processing of slate. Slate is either quarried from a slate quarry or reached by tunneling in a slate mine. Common uses for slate...
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  • Porthmadog and the junction with the Croesor Tramway was again re-used to connect the Moel y Gest quarry tramway via the Croesor and the Festiniog to the wharves...
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    Kellow, who became the agent and quarry engineer, and whose nephew Moses was responsible for the developments at Croesor quarry from 1895. Kempe and Matthews...
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    Moelwyn quarry is a defunct slate quarry located to the south of the village of Tanygrisiau, north Wales. Some initial prospecting was carried out in the...
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  • Monnow before recapture. 13 September - Rhosydd Quarry ceases slate production. Neighbouring Croesor Quarry also closes this year. 24 December - In London...
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    slate quarry, a small slate quarry at 52°36′26.0″N 4°01′27.9″W / 52.607222°N 4.024417°W / 52.607222; -4.024417.[citation needed] The quarry was short-lived...
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    for being unreliable. The Croesor Tramway had run from Porthmadog since 1863 up into the Croesor Valley and the slate quarries in this area. This was a...
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    2000 and to Rhyd Ddu in 2003. Hafod y Llyn was reached in 2009 and Pont Croesor in 2010. By 2010, the tracks of the WHR and Ffestiniog Railway had been...
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    of the Ffestiniog Railway. In 1863, the Croesor Tramway was built, connecting the slate quarries of the Croesor valley with Porthmadog. This 2 ft (610 mm)...
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    Alexandra quarry was a slate quarry in North Wales, on the slopes of Moel Tryfan in north Gwynedd. It was part of one of the major slate quarrying regions...
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  • Section 7 - Beddgelert to Croesor - (Distance: 7.2KM, 4.4MLS ; Ascent: 400M, 1300FT ; Time: 2 – 3hrs) Section 8 - Croesor to Tanygrisiau - (Distance:...
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    The tramroad started at the "engine house" (ie slate mill) at Aberllfenni quarry, to the north of the eventual station site. Passengers were carried on the...
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    1840. The town grew around the slate quarrying industries; the largest of the local quarries is the Penrhyn Quarry. At its peak, the town exported purple...
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  • Press. ISBN 0-85361-328-1. Southern, Dave; Barell, Adrian (2018). The Croesor Tramway. The Welsh Highland Railway Heritage Group. ISBN 9780993082160...
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    skyline. A granite quarry, known to the locals as Y Gwaith Mawr ("the large works"), Trefor Granite Quarry or the Yr Eifl Quarry, opened in 1850. The...
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