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    Gloddfa Ganol (also known as the Gloddfa Ganol Mountain Center) was a museum dedicated to the Welsh slate industry and narrow-gauge railways, situated...
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    allow a third quarry to be opened. This was Middle Quarry also known as Gloddfa Ganol and was operated by the Rhiwbryfdir Slate Company. The younger Holland...
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    Timber Supply Department. Purchased by Rich Morris in 1965. Displayed at Gloddfa Ganol until 1998, when sold to the Abbey Light Railway Welsh Highland Heritage...
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  • Society, Caerphilly Railway Works – closed 1996, moved to Gwili Railway Gloddfa Ganol, Blaenau Ffestiniog - museum of narrow-gauge railways, closed in 1998...
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    systems. Trains portal British narrow-gauge railways Conwy Valley line Gloddfa Ganol Llechwedd Slate Caverns An Act to alter and amend an Act of his late...
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    Tourism became the town's largest employer, with the development of Gloddfa Ganol in the Oakeley quarry and the Slate Caverns at Llechwedd quarry. The...
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    Heureuse, in France in June 1930. Imported by Rich Morris and displayed at Gloddfa Ganol. Moved to the Yaxham Light Railway, now awaiting restoration at the...
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    ISBN 1-85284-304-7. J.G. Isherwood (1980). Candles to Caplamps: the Story of Gloddfa Ganol. Gloddfa Ganol. www.geograph.co.uk : photos of Allt-fawr and surrounding area...
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    (610 mm) Lynton and Barnstaple Railway Joffre Axe 2451 1915 0-6-0ST ex-Gloddfa Ganol. Heavily rebuilt, but retaining many original parts, Axe Returned to...
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    The 1915 Kerr Stuart "Joffre" class 0-6-0T loco 2451 was bought from Gloddfa Ganol in 1983, and named Axe. Restored to working order in 2008, Axe worked...
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    bought for the Gloddfa Ganol museum in Wales. Here, it was regauged to 2 ft (610 mm) and restored to working order. When Gloddfa Ganol closed, it was...
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  • formed Narrow Gauge Enterrprises and arranged to create a museum at Gloddfa Ganol in North Wales. They moved their locomotives out of Brockham on 18 July...
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    ISBN 0-7083-0776-0. J.G. Isherwood (1980). Candles to Caplamps: the Story of Gloddfa Ganol. Gloddfa Ganol. Isherwood, J.G. (1988). Slate - from Blaenau Ffestiniog. AB...
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    New to Meeth Clay works, Devon. Purchased by Rich Morris and moved to Gloddfa Ganol. Purchased by the ALR in 1998. Now at Gelert's Farm. 10 Baguley 0-4-0...
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    awards. Slate industry in Wales British narrow gauge slate railways Gloddfa Ganol Isherwood, Graham (July 2009). "Chronology of Llechwedd Quarry". {{cite...
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  • gauge railways West Lancashire Light Railway – former home of Stanhope Gloddfa Ganol - source of several MRT locomotives Wikimedia Commons has media related...
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  • Isherwood, J. G. (1980). Candles to Caplamps: the Story of Gloddfa Ganol. Gloddfa Ganol. Flight International. IPC Transport Press Limited. January 1969...
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    where a railway was established. The Narrow Gauge Railway Centre at Gloddfa Ganol 1978 1997 2 ft (610 mm) 1⁄2 mile (0.80 km) Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales...
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  • Group for the Ffestiniog Railway. Sold to Rich Morris in 1976, and subsequently displayed at Gloddfa Ganol. Returned to the FR, and restored in 2010....
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    Oxfordshire In 1977, Morris opened a railway museum in Oakeley quarry, called Gloddfa Ganol and 774 was moved there as an exhibit. In 1997, the museum closed and...
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    45913 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) Hudson 1932 Midhurst Whites Ltd, Midhurst ex-Gloddfa Ganol. On static display. - DM686 2 ft (610 mm) Hudswell Clarke 1948 National...
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    1961, but purchased by Rich Morris in May 1963. Was one display at Gloddfa Ganol; when that closed in 1997, it was purchased for use on the Eynsford...
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    then Oakeley Slate Quarry, then preserved by Rodney Weaver, sold to Gloddfa Ganol, purchased by the Narrow Gauge Railway Museum, cosmetically restored...
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    0-4-0BE Operational Ex. RAF Fauld Welsh Pony BEV 640 1926 0-4-0OE Awaiting restoration Ex. Llechwedd Slate Quarry. Displayed at Gloddfa Ganol until 1998....
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  • locomotive remain at the quarry Llanfair De Winton 0-4-0VB 1895 Preserved at Gloddfa Ganol until 1997. Now at the Welsh Highland Railway, Dinas railway station...
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    locomotive was 750 mm (2 ft 5+1⁄2 in) gauge Hunslet 2209, on loan from the Gloddfa Ganol railway museum. The platform used to be an island platform as there...
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    brought to Oakeley and the Narrow Gauge Railway Centre was opened in the Gloddfa Ganol tourist attraction. In 1862 the quarry was connected to the Nantlle...
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  • (610 mm) ex Beswicks Lime works Hindlow quarries. Was once part of the Gloddfa Ganol` collection. Hunslet 605 Margaret 1894 0-4-0T 1 ft 11+3⁄4 in (603 mm)...
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    in the 1930s. Remains purchased by Rich Morris in 1973 and moved to Gloddfa Ganol, later at Bala Lake Railway. No. 1 4wBE British Electric Vehicles 1921...
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  • the largest single quarry in Blaenau Ffestiniog. Was the home of the Gloddfa Ganol tourist attraction in the 1980s and 1990s. Now worked as an open pit...
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