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
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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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
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…carry the workers' wages. The vehicle has survived into preservation at Penrhyn Castle. In 1963, Velinheli was in pieces in the railway's workshops at Gilfach Ddu, having been out of traffic since 1953 for major overhaul that was never completed. Whilst the majority of this locomotive was scrapped, certain items…
The National Slate Museum, built in the repurposed Dinorwic slate quarry workshops
The building containing the large De Winton waterwheel