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    The Ffestiniog Power Station (Welsh pronunciation) is a 360-megawatt (MW) pumped-storage hydroelectricity scheme near Ffestiniog, in Gwynedd, north-west...
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    Railway Ffestiniog power station Ffestiniog Railway "ffestiniog". Dictionary.com Unabridged (Online). n.d. Retrieved 16 January 2024. "ffestiniog". Collins...
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    Blaenau Ffestiniog railway station serves the slate mining town of Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales, and is the southern terminus of the Conwy Valley Line. Transport...
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    electric lighting powered from its own hydro-electric power station was in Plas Tan y Bwlch, Gwynedd. In 1963, the Ffestiniog Power Station was constructed...
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    creating secure and clean electricity supply systems. A hydroelectric power station that has a dam and reservoir is a flexible source, since the amount...
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    Trawsfynydd nuclear power station (Welsh: Atomfa Trawsfynydd) is a former Magnox nuclear power station situated in Snowdonia National Park in Gwynedd,...
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    Blaenau Ffestiniog (Welsh pronunciation: [ˈbleɨ̯naɨ̯ fɛstˈɪnjɔg]) is a town in Gwynedd, Wales. Once a slate mining centre in historic Merionethshire, it...
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    lighting powered from its own hydro-electric power station was in Plas Tan y Bwlch, Gwynedd.[citation needed] In 1963, the Ffestiniog Power Station was constructed...
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    Dduallt railway station (English: Black hill) (pronounced [ˈðɨ.aɬt]) is a passenger station on the narrow gauge Ffestiniog Railway in northwest Wales,...
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    The Ffestiniog Railway (Welsh: Rheilffordd Ffestiniog) is a heritage railway based on 1 ft 11+1⁄2 in (597 mm) narrow-gauge, located in Gwynedd, Wales...
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    Hills (Second ed.). Milnthorpe: Cicerone. p. 7. ISBN 1852844671. "Ffestiniog Power Station". First Hydro Company. Retrieved 30 May 2020. "Snowdonia: Eryri...
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    Lünerseewerk (de) (Austria, 1958) and the 360 megawatts (480,000 hp) Ffestiniog Power Station (Wales, 1963). It is one of four pumped storage schemes in the...
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  • Visit Cruachan website, Drax Group PLC's Cruachan Power Station was preceded by the Ffestiniog Power Station in North Wales, which opened in 1963, and on a...
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    desired for the nuclear power station under construction at Trawsfynydd, and a connecting line was built from Blaenau Ffestiniog North to the site of the...
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  • UK power stations here:[1] Nuclear power stations Coal-fired power stations: Gas (or combined gas/coal) fired power stations: Hydro-electric power stations:...
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  • and power stations, over 162 square kilometres producing around 85 GWh annually which can power around 12,350 homes. The Ffestiniog Power Station opened...
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    Llan Ffestiniog, also known as Ffestiniog or simply Llan, is a village in Gwynedd (formerly in the county of Merionethshire), Wales, about 2 miles south...
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    base load power stations. The surplus and cheaper solar PV power generated during the day light is stored by the pumped storage hydro power plants to...
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    Tanygrisiau (category Ffestiniog)
    Tanygrisiau is a village and area within Blaenau Ffestiniog in the upper end of the Vale of Ffestiniog in the county of Gwynedd, north-west Wales (52°59′12″N...
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    Manod railway station served the village of Manod which then stood on the southern edge of Blaenau Ffestiniog in Gwynedd, Wales. The 1 ft 11+1⁄2 in (597 mm)...
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  • nuclear power station for a guided tour. The only part of the line in use today is the very short section between the two stations in Blaenau Ffestiniog. The...
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    Festiniog railway station served the village of Llan Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, Wales. This station was one of many 19th century institutions in Wales to be...
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    The Dinorwig Power Station (/dɪˈnɔːrwɪɡ/; Welsh: [dɪˈnɔrwɪɡ]), known locally as Electric Mountain, or Mynydd Gwefru, is a pumped-storage hydroelectric...
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  • Alan Pegler (category Ffestiniog Railway)
    short section in 1954, but after a diversion to avoid the new Ffestiniog Power Station reservoir, the line was fully reopened to passengers in 1982. A...
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    Tanygrisiau railway station (grid reference SH683449) is a passenger station on the narrow gauge Ffestiniog Railway The line was built in 1836 to carry...
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  • The Ffestiniog transmitting station is a broadcasting and telecommunications facility located on the slopes of Mynydd Maentwrog about 3 kilometres (1...
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    Moelwyn Mawr (category Ffestiniog)
    reservoir, Llyn Stwlan, which is part of the Ffestiniog Power Station pumped-storage hydroelectric power plant in Tanygrisiau. The walk over the main...
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    second passenger station in Blaenau Ffestiniog, then in Merionethshire, now in Gwynedd, Wales. The evolution of Blaenau's passenger stations was complex with...
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    Trawsfynydd railway station served the village of Trawsfynydd, Gwynedd, Wales. In 1882 the Bala and Ffestiniog Railway opened the line from Bala Junction...
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    Energy development (category Power station technology)
    contributor to recent climate change. Other emissions from fossil fuel power station include sulphur dioxide, carbon monoxide (CO), hydrocarbons, volatile...
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