Gilfach Ddu
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Gilfach Ddu are a series of well-preserved Grade I listed industrial buildings built to serve the Dinorwic slate quarry near Llanberis in Caernarfonshire, North Wales. The workshops compreise a comple
The National Slate Museum, built in the repurposed Dinorwic slate quarry workshops
The building containing the large De Winton waterwheel
Padarn Railway
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The Padarn Railway was a narrow-gauge railway in North Wales, built to the unusual gauge of 4 ft. It carried slate seven miles from Dinorwic Quarry to Port Dinorwic. The line opened on 3 March 1843, r
Gilfach Ddu
…gauge Dinorwic Railway was built in 1824, connecting the quarry to the coast at Port Dinorwic. This was replaced in 1843 by the 4 ft (1,219 mm) gauge Padarn Railway running along the shore of Llyn Padarn and on to Port Dinorwic. In 1848, steam locomotives were introduced on the railway. Between 1869 and 1870, the…
The Padarn Railway locomotive shed at Penscoins in 2005
Padarn Railway locomotive Jenny Lind
The preserved Padarn Railway locomotive Fire Queen when it was displayed at the Penrhyn Castle Railway Museum
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