A trill of the whistle and a hiss of steam served as our final boarding call for a ride to the slate quarries in the Welsh highlands on a historic narrow-gauge train. As the steam’s metallic ...

This was a near 100 yard tunnel that once played a vital role in the area's slate trade. The Dinowic Quarries Railway - also ...

"The slate quarries were described as the most Welsh ... For almost a century the narrow gauge railway hauled slate through Snowdonia before it became the world's first preserved railway in ...

At Penrhyn Quarry, slate seams are on the surface ... but it was the introduction of the narrow gauge railway that transformed the industry. Most famous is the Blaenau Ffestiniog railway which ...

A ‘LOST’ tunnel from nearly 200 years ago has been discovered under a UK village. The tunnel has been out of use since the ...

The lifespan of a Gwynedd slate quarry that was famously used ... with brick built humidity controlled chambers and a narrow gauge rail track to move the artwork around. By the summer of 1941 ...

A railway track which hasn't been used for around 80 years could be re-opened to link a major tourist attraction with a popular narrow ... gauge line. The plan coincides with an application for ...

Chris spent months travelling on many of Britain's loveliest narrow-gauge railways while researching ... the products of backbreaking work underground. Slate freight in this case was carried from the ...

The Coalition was converted to electricity in 1927 at the slate mine Two of the oldest ... to restore them is carried out. The Narrow Gauge Railway Museum in Tywyn, Gwynedd, is paying for the ...

Back in the late 60s some friends and I would follow the disused narrow gauge lines that would bring the slate down from the quarries. "There were many tunnels leading into the mines but we never ...