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The Narrow Gauge Railway Museum (Welsh: Amgueddfa Rheilffyrdd Bach Cul) is a purpose-built museum dedicated to narrow-gauge railways situated at the Tywyn Wharf station of the Talyllyn Railway in Tywyn, Gwynedd, Wales. The museum has a collection of more than 1,000 items from over eighty narrow-gauge railways in Wales, England, the Isle of Man ...
An important development during this period was the establishment of the Narrow Gauge Railway Museum at Tywyn Wharf station. The first exhibit for what was to become the museum was a locomotive donated in 1952 by Guinness from their recently closed St. James's Gate Brewery railway. In 1954 the Preservation Society agreed to start work on a ...
Narrow Gauge Railway Museum: Tywyn: Gwynedd: North Wales: Railway: Locomotives and artifacts from over 80 British narrow gauge railways National Slate Museum: Llanberis: Gwynedd: North Wales: Industry (NMW) Formerly the Welsh Slate Museum, former slate quarry Oriel Pendeitsh: Caernarfon: Gwynedd: North Wales: Art: website [permanent dead link ...
The Narrow Gauge Railway Centre at Gloddfa Ganol [10] 1978 [43] 1997 2 ft (610 mm) 1 ⁄ 2 mile (0.80 km) Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales: Then the largest collection of narrow-gauge locomotives in Britain, with over 70 present; housed in the former Oakeley slate quarry. Golden Valley Light Railway: Late 1980s Present 2 ft (610 mm) Just under 1-mile ...
The Vale of Rheidol Railway (Welsh: Rheilffordd Cwm Rheidol) is a 1 ft 11 + 3 ⁄ 4 in (603 mm) narrow gauge heritage railway in Ceredigion, Wales, between Aberystwyth and Devil's Bridge; a journey of 11 + 3 ⁄ 4 miles (18.9 km).
Video showing all steam and diesel locomotives departing Tywyn Wharf. This is a list of past and present rolling stock used on the Talyllyn Railway (Welsh: Rheilffordd Talyllyn), a 2 ft 3 in (686 mm) narrow gauge preserved railway line running for 7.25 miles (11.67 km) [1] from Tywyn on the Mid-Wales coast to Nant Gwernol near the village of Abergynolwyn.
This is a list of past and present rolling stock used on the Vale of Rheidol Railway (Welsh: Rheilffordd Cwm Rheidol), a 1 ft 11 + 3 ⁄ 4 in (603 mm) narrow gauge heritage railway, opened in 1902, that runs for 11 + 3 ⁄ 4 miles (19 km) between Aberystwyth and Devil's Bridge in the county of Ceredigion, Wales.
Gloddfa Ganol (also known as the Gloddfa Ganol Mountain Center) was a museum dedicated to the Welsh slate industry and narrow-gauge railways, situated in the Oakeley slate quarry in Blaenau Ffestiniog. It opened in 1974 and closed in 1998 following an auction of its exhibits.