Rhiwbach quarry (also known as Rhiw-bach quarry) was a slate quarry located to the east of Blaenau Ffestiniog in North Wales. The quarry was a remote site;...

continued until closure in 1961. The quarry was connected to the Ffestiniog Railway at Duffws Station via the Rhiwbach Tramway. Cwt y Bugail means "Shepherd's...

The Rhiwbach Tramway was a Welsh industrial, 1 ft 11+1⁄2 in (597 mm) narrow gauge railway connecting the remote slate quarries east of Blaenau Ffestiniog...

stretches of the Rhiwbach tramway continued in use until at least the 1980s. The quarry was purchased by the nearby Llechwedd quarry in 1975 together...

The quarry was connected to the Ffestiniog Railway at Duffws Station via the Rhiwbach Tramway. Blaen y Cwm and the nearby Cwt y Bugail quarry are both...

directly below the Rhiwbach Quarry. It was worked between 1818 and 1962. The quarry was originally known as the Tan-y-rhiw quarry, and it was recorded...

laid, connecting the quarry with the Ffestiniog Railway's Duffws terminus in Blaenau Ffestiniog. This incline operated by Rhiwbach Tramway was also used...

as a quarry settlement. The Penmachno quarry lay immediately south and above the settlement. Higher up the valley was the Rhiwbach slate quarry, which...

Conwy valleys to Trefriw, until the Rhiwbach Tramway opened in 1863, when all the slate from the Rhiwbach quarry was transported to Blaenau Ffestiniog...

the Wrysgan quarry to the Festiniog Railway at Tanygrisiau The remains of Diphwys Casson mill above the Votty & Bowydd pit The Rhiwbach engine house...

as well as at Oakeley quarry and Rhiwbach quarry. During the First World War, the quarry closed in 1917, after slate quarrying was declared to be a non-essential...

occurred when Llechwedd also purchased Votty & Bowydd Quarry, Maenofferen Quarry and Rhiwbach Quarry. Quarry operations continue at Llechwedd in 2013, though...

incline down to the Rhiwbach quarry. This quarry was owned by the Festiniog Slate Co., and the tramway was financed by them, with quarries who wanted to use...

connection from Bowydd quarry to the Festiniog Railway was made by an incline, though in 1863 this was replaced by the Rhiwbach No. 1 incline of the newly...

not steeply graded - these are often used in quarries to move large numbers of wagons between the quarry to the processing plant. The oldest extant cable...

Pwllheli. Between 1861 and 1863, Jones built the Rhiwbach Tramway serving eight of the slate quarries at Blaenau Ffestiniog. He also built the Betws-y-Coed...

The Cambrian quarry was a slate quarry, located to the west of Glyn Ceiriog in Denbighshire, North Wales. There was some small-scale extraction of slate...

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...

Oakeley slate quarry in Blaenau Ffestiniog. It opened in 1974 and closed in 1998 following an auction of its exhibits. The Oakeley slate quarry was the largest...

provided at several mines including Rhiwbach (by Go Below),[citation needed] Llechwedd (Zip World and Llechwedd/Quarry Tours Ltd) and Cwmorthin (Go Below)...

Wrysgan quarries were dug to the south of the town, while at the head of Cwm Penmachno to the north-east, a series of quarries started at Rhiwbach, Cwt y...

Wales. Many quarries had internal tramways, some using many dozens of miles of track. Others had private lines that stretched from the quarry to transhipment...

once it had stopped. The quarry was supposed to phone Duffwys station, where slate wagons from the quarries served by the Rhiwbach Tramway were marshalled...

Llnrhychwyn and Crafnant Quarries, but from as far away as Cwm Penmachno, where Penmachno, Rhiwbach and Blaen y Cwm quarries were major suppliers. However...

in the construction of narrow gauge railways and the ownership of slate quarries in North Wales during the second half of the 19th century. Hugh Beaver...

Byzantine Empire. The fifth slab was discovered during quarrying near the Roman road in Rhiwbach, Cwm Penmachno and just features a cross. The chancel...

Penrhyn Quarry Railway Penydarren Tramway Pen-yr-Orsedd Quarry tramways Rhiwbach Tramway Saundersfoot Railway Trefor Quarry railway Tremadoc Tramway...

gauge railways in the United Kingdom Steamlocomotive.info - Kent Threlkeld Quarry & Mining Museum - official website Leadhills and Wanlockhead Branch...